Thomas Delorey (1543-1600)

John Lyly (1554-1606)

Thomas Lodge

Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86)

Robert Greene (1560-92)

Prose Writers

Sermon Writers

Translations

1. Virgil was translated by Phaer 1558 and Stanyhurst 1562
2. Plutarch’s Lives by North 1579
3. Ovid by Golding 1565 and 1567, Tuberville 1567, Chapman 1595
4. Homer by Chapman 1598
5. Plutarch’s morals by HollandAriosto’s Orlando Furioso by Harrington 1591

Pamphleteers

Essayists

Francis Bacon

1. Born in London, 22 January, 1561
2. Father, Sir Nicholas bacon was the Lord Keeper of the Great seal under Queen Elizabeth I, she called his father “Little Lord Keeper”
3. Bacon’s political career flourished during the reign of King James I
4. He was sent to Cambridge in 1573 but he left it in 1575 saying that all education based on Aristotle was erong.
5. In 1574 he went to France with English ambassador where he studied statistics and diplomacy.
6. In 1576 his father died and now he had to depend upon his uncle.
7. He studied law and was called to the bar in 1582.
8. Knighted in 1603, then became Solicitor General, then Lord Chancellor, then lord keeper of Great seal. Also became a member of the Privy Council and received two titles: Baron Verulam and Viscount St Albans.
9. Political career ended in 1621, when he was impeached for taking bribe. 4 year Prison
10. English lawyer, statesman, essayist, historian, intellectual reformer, philosopher, and pioneer of modern science.
11. Bacon is known as the father of empiricism
12. Works
    1. A Letter of Advice to Queen Elizabeth: his first political memorandum, which earned him instant attention
    2. Essays: Religious Meditations 1597
    3. The Elements of the Common Law of England 1597
    4. A Declaration of the Practises and Treasons attempted and committed by Robert, late Earl of Essex and his complies 1601
    5. Sir Francis Bacon his Apology, in Certain Imputations Concerning the Late Earl of Essex 1604
    6. The Proficient and Advencement of Learning 1605
    7. De Sapientia Veterum Liber 1609
    8. The Charge of Sir Francis Bacon, Knight, the King’s Attorney-General, Touching Duels 1614
    9. The Wisdom of the Ancients 1619
    10. Novum Organum 1620
    11. The History of the Reign of King Henry VII 1622
    12. The History of Winds 1622
    13. De Augmentis Scientiarum 1623
    14. Apoph Thegms, New and Old 1625
13. Science Fiction:
    1. The New Atlantis 1626

Richard Hooker 1554-1600

1. Laws of Ecclesiastical Policy

Walter Raleigh

Samuel Purchas

John Foxe

William Camden

John Knox