The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687)

by William Winstanley

The Names of the Poets Mention'd in this Book.

• [Robert of Glocester]
• [Richard the Hermit]
• [Joseph of Exeter]
• [Michael Blaunpayn]
• [Matthew Paris]
• [William Ramsey]
• [Alexander Nequam]
• [Alexander Essebie]
• [Robert Baston]
• [Henry Bradshaw]
• [Havillan]
• Sir [John Gower]
• [Geoffrey Chaucer]
• [John Lydgate]
• [John Harding]
• [Robert Fabian]
• [John Skelton]
• [William Lilly]
• Sir [Thomas More]
• [Henry Howard, Earl] of Surry
• Sir [Thomas Wiat]
• Dr. [Christopher Tye]
• [John Leland]
• [Thomas Churchyard]
• [John Higgins]
• [Abraham Fraunce]
• [William Warner]
• [Thomas Tusser]
• [Thomas Stow]
• [Dr. Lodge]
• [Robert Greene]
• [Thomas Nash]
• Sir [Philip Sidney]
• Sir [Fulk Grevil]
• Mr. [Edmund Spenser]
• Sir [John Harrington]
• [John Heywood]
• [Thomas Heywood]
• [George Peel]
• [John Lilly]
• [William Wager]
• [Nicholas Berton]
• [Tho. Kid, Tho. Watson], &c.
• Sir [Thomas Overbury]
• Mr. [Michael Drayton]
• [Joshua Sylvester]
• Mr. [Samuel Daniel]
• [George Chapman]
• [Robert Baron]
• [Lodowic Carlisle]
• [John Ford]
• [Anthony Brewer]
• [Henry Glapthorn]
• [John Davis of Hereford ]
• Dr. [John Donne]
• Dr. [Richard Corbet]
• Mr. [Benjamin Johnson]
• [Fr. Beaumont] and [Jo. Fletcher]
• [William Shakespeare]
• [Christopher Marlow]
• [Barton Holyday]
• [Cyril Turney]
• [Thomas Middleton]
• [William Rowley]
• [Thomas Deckar]
• [John Marston]
• Dr. [Jasper Main]
• [James Shirley]
• [Philip Massinger]
• [John Webster]
• [William Brown]
• [Thomas Randolph]
• Sir [John Beaumont]
• Dr. [Philemon Holland]
• [Thomas Goffe]
• [Thomas Nabbes]
• [Richard Broome]
• [Robert Chamberlain]
• [William Sampson]
• [George Sandys], Esq;
• Sir [John Suckling]
• Mr. [William Habington]
• Mr. [Francis Quarles]
• Mr. [Phineas Fletcher]
• Mr. [George Herbert]
• Mr. [Richard Crashaw]
• Mr. [William Cartwright]
• Sir [Aston Cockain]
• Sir [John Davis]
• [Thomas May]
• [Charles Aleyn]
• [George Withers]
• [Robert Herric]
• [John Taylor], Water Poet
• [Thomas Rawlins]
• Mr. [Thomas Carew]
• Col. [Richard Lovelace]
• [Alexander Broome]
• Mr. [John Cleaveland]
• Sir [John Birkenhead]
• Dr. [Robert Wild]
• Mr. [Abraham Cowley]
• Mr. [Edmond Waller]
• Sir [John Denham]
• Sir [William Davenant]
• Sir [George Wharton]
• Sir [Robert Howard]
• [W. Cavendish of Newcastle]
• Sir [William Killegrew]
• [John Studly]
• [John Tatham]
• [Thomas Jordan]
• [Hugh Crompton]
• [Edmund Prestwich]
• [Pagan Fisher]
• [Edward Shirburn], Esq;
• [John Quarles]
• [John Milton]
• [John Ogilby]
• Sir [Richard Fanshaw]
• Earl of [Orrery]
• [Thomas Hobbs]
• Earl of [Rochester]
• Mr. [Thomas Flatman]
• [Martin Luellin]
• [Edmond Fairfax]
• [Henry King], Bishop of Chichester
• [Thomas Manley]
• Mr. [Lewis Griffin]
• [John Dauncey]
• [Richard Head]
• [John Philips]
• Mr. [John Oldham]
• Mr. [John Driden]
• Mr. [Elkinah Settle]
• Sir [George Etheridge]
• Mr. [John Wilson]
• Mr. [Thomas Shadwell]
• [Thomas Stanley], Esq;
• [Edward Philips]
• Mr. [Thomas Sprat]
• [William Smith]
• Mr. [John Lacey]
• Mr. [William Whicherly]
• Sir [Roger L'Estrange]

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