Puritan Period (1649-1660) Puritans were a group of English speaking protestants who were dissatisfied with the religious reformation movement carried out during the reign of…
Phineas Fletcher 1582-1650 and Giles Fletcher 1588-1623 Two brothers, disciples of Spenser Alma mater: Cambridge Poems The Purple Island or The Isle of Man 1633…
John Donne – 1573 – 1631 (London) Alma mater: Oxford and Cambridge Parents – Roman Catholics 1621 – Dean of St. Pauls First great Anglican Preacher Revolted…
William Alabaster (1889-966) He was a minor metaphysical poet. Sonnets: Eliseis (a latin poem on the Queen Roxana (a tragedy praised by Jonson) His divine…
Thomas Campion 1567-1620 Alma mater: Cambridge First work appeared in 1591 Works: His first individual collection Poemata Contained Latin panegyrics, elegies and epigrams Published in…
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…