English Literature: Early 17th Century (1603-1660)



	

	


			

			
			

			
			

			
			

			
			

			



 
 	 	
	 		
		



    		

       
       	



	 	
	
	

 	   Introduction  |  King James  I  |  Sir Francis Bacon  |  Lancelot Andrewes


John Donne |  Ben Jonson  |  Sir Thomas Overbury  |  William Alabaster


Joseph Hall  |  Thomas Middleton  |  Francis Beaumont  |  John Fletcher


Thomas Dekker  | William Rowley | Thomas Heywood | Philip Massinger


John Webster | Lady Mary Wroth | John Marston  |  Sir  Thomas  Browne


John Ford | James Shirley  |  Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle


Edward Herbert  |  George Herbert |  Henry Vaughan  | Abraham Cowley


Robert Herrick  | Thomas Carew  | Sir John Suckling |  Richard Lovelace



Richard Crashaw  |  Edmund Waller  |  Francis Quarles  |  Mildmay Fane



John  Milton  |  Andrew  Marvell  |  Sir  Isaac Newton  |  Thomas Hobbes


Katherine Philips | Dorothy Osborne | Metaphysical Poets | Cavalier Poets


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 "Introduction" copyright ©1998 W. W. Norton & Co.; it is a link to Norton Topics Online.


Art: Willem Buytewech. Merry Company, c.1618. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.