The Renaissance

The Elizabethan Age http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/16century/welcome.htm



Sir Thomas Wyatt http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/wyattbio.htm
Whoso List to Hunt http://www.nellgavin.com/ThomasWyatt/ http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/whosolist.htm
Divers Doth Use http://www.handprint.com/SC/SHK/sonnets.html http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/divers.htm


Edmund Spencer http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/spensbio.htm
The Faerie Queene http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6930 http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/fqintro.htm


Sir Philip Sidney http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/sidbio.htm


Christopher Marlowe http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/marlowebio.htm
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love http://www2.latech.edu/~bmagee/201/marlowe/shepherd_&_notes.htm http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/passionateshepherd.htm


Sir Walter Raleigh http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/raleghbio.htm
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd http://www2.latech.edu/~bmagee/201/marlowe/shepherd_&_notes.htm http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/nymphsreply.htm

William Shakespeare http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/
Sonnets http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/ http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.03.0064
Songs
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind <http://quotations.about.com/cs/poemlyrics/a/Blow_Blow_Thou.htm>
It Was a Lover and His Lass <http://members.tripod.com/CelticLore/ItWasALoverAndHisLass.w.htm>
Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun <http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/477.html>
Macbeth < http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/ >



The Jacobean Age [17th Century] http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/17century/welcome.htm
Metaphysical Poets http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/metaintro.htm

John Donne http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/donnebio.htm
Song http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=173384 http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/sweetest.php
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=173387 http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/mourning.php
Holy Sonnets http://cs1.mcm.edu/~rayb/holy_sonnets.htm http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/donnebib.htm

George Herbert http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herbert/herbbio.htm
Virtue http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herbert/virtue.htm http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/Herbert/Virtue
Easter Wings http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herbert/easterwings.htm http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/anthology/Herbert/Easter.htm

Andrew Marvell http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/marvbio.htm
To His Coy Mistress http://www.bartleby.com/101/357.html http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/coy.htm

Henry Vaughan http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/vaughan/vaughbio.htm
The Retreat http://www.daypoems.net/plainpoems/354.html http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/vaughan/retreat.htm

Cavalier Poets http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/cavintro.htm

Ben Johnson http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/benbio.htm
On My First Son http://www.angelfire.com/ga/jewliet/firstson.html http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/son.htm
Song: To Celia http://www.benjonson.org.uk/stc.htm http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/celia2.htm
To the Memory of My Beloved Master, William Shakespeare http://www.themediadrome.com/content/poetry/jonson_to_shakespeare.htm http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/benshake.htm
It Is Not Growing Like a Tree http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/301.html http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/5269

Robert Herrick http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herrick/herribio.htm
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time http://www.englishverse.com/poems/to_the_virgins_to_make_much_of_time http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herrick/tovirgins.htm
To Daffodils http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-daffodils/ http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herrick/daffodils.htm

Sir John Suckling <http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/suckling/sjsbio.htm>
The Constant Lover http://www.englishverse.com/poems/the_constant_lover http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/suckling/outuponit.htm
Why So Pale and Wan http://www.patchword.com/patchword/anthology/classic_detail.asp?Id=70&author=Sir+John+Suckling http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/suckling/whysopale.htm

Richard Lovelace http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/lovelace/lovebio.htm
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1353.html
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/lovelace/lucastawars.htm
To Althea, from Prison http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1352.html
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/lovelace/altheaprison.htm

The Puritan Age

John Milton http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/milton/miltonbio.htm
Paradise Lost http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/milton/plost.htm

John Bunyan http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/bunyan/bunyanbio.htm
The Pilgrim’s Progress http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/bunyan/bunyanbib.htm http://www.mountzion.org/johnbunyan/index.html