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Born 1543? • Norwich? • England
Died 1600
Notable Works short story • “The Gentle Craft”
Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English author
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Thomas Lodge
English writer
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish author and clergyman
Engraved portrait of John Milton by Jacob Houbraken, showing Milton with shoulder-length hair, a lace collar, and period clothing, facing forward in an oval frame.
John Milton
English poet, pamphleteer, and historian
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser
English poet
Daniel Defoe, engraving by M. Van der Gucht, after a portrait by J. Taverner, first half of the 18th century.
Daniel Defoe
English author
Engraved portrait of William Penn wearing a dark coat, white cravat, and wide-brimmed hat, with shoulder-length curly hair.
William Penn
English religious leader
Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney
English author and statesman
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William Morris
British artist and author
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author
John Gay, oil painting by William Aikman; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
John Gay
British author
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Thomas Nashe
English writer
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Arthur Young
English writer
Pater, Walter
Walter Pater
English author
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John Lyly
English writer
Thomas Dekker, from the frontispiece of his play Dekker his dreame, woodcut, 1620
Thomas Dekker
English dramatist
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Anthony Munday
English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator
John Taylor, engraving by E. Scriven after a portrait by an unknown artist
John Taylor
British writer
pages from Francis Quarles's Emblemes
Francis Quarles
English poet