Michael Drayton 1563- 1631 born at Hartshill in Warwickshire in 1553 and was buried in Westminister Abbey. First work was a verse paraphrase of parts…
Samuel Daniel 1562-1619 Alma mater: Oxford Poet Laureate 1603 Travelled widely and developed knowledge of French and Italian Literature. First published work: the Worthy Tract…
Fulke Greville 1554-1628 1st baron Brooke, from aristocratic family joined Philip Sidney at school at Shrewsbury, Jesus college, Cambridge, Sidney at the court of Elizabeth…
Sir Philip Sidney 1554-86 Alma mater: Oxford Poems 108 love sonnets Astrophel and Stella – 1591 written to his mistress Lady Penelope Rich/Devereux, in 1575,…
Edmund Spenser (1552-99) Birth- East Smithfield, London to John Spenser, a cloth maker. Educated in Merchant Taylor’s School. Alma mater: Pembroke hall, Cambridge, a Puritan…
Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1536-1608) Alma mater: Oxford Two poems appeared in a miscellany called Myrroure for Magistrates 1563 both composed in royal stanza. This…
George Gascoigne 1525-77 Alma mater: Cambridge Satire The Steele Glas 1576 Other works Jocasta 1566 Supposes 1566, the first prose comedy, basis of Shakespeare’s Taming of the…
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516-47) Associated with Thomas Wyatt His poems appeared in Tottel’s Miscellany 1557 Introduces – two metrical forms of capital importance:…
Sir Thomas Wyatt 1503-42 Alma mater: Cambridge Patron: Thomas Cromwell His 96 love poems (written in Petrarchan form) appeared posthumously in Tottel’s Miscellany (1557) His satires…
Characteristics Songs were written and published in anthologies like Richard Tottle’s Songs and Sonnets Song writers: Nicholas Grimald, Thomas Nashe, Robert Southwell, John Dowland, William…