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An Anthology of Renaissance Lyrics

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Poets:  chronologically by date of birth

John Skelton, 1460?-1529  (in Luminarium)

Stephen Hawes, ca. 1475-1511

King Henry VIII (1491-1547)  (in Luminarium)

Tottel's Miscellany (1557) 

John Heywood (1497?-1580?)

Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)  (in Luminarium)

Edward Somerset

Thomas, Lord Vaux (1509-1556)

William Gray of Reading (?-1557)

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547)  (in Luminarium)

Nicholas Grimald (1519-1563)

Robert Wever (fl. ca. 1549-1553)

Spare Your Good (1555?)

Thomas Tusser (1524?-1580)

William Stevenson (1530?-1575)

Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)  (in Luminarium)

George Gascoigne (1539-1578)  (in Luminarium)

William Hunnis (?-1597)

Barnabe Googe (1540-1594)

Edward Dyer (1543?-1607)

Alexander Montgomerie (1545?-1597?)

Nicholas Breton (1545-1626?)

Giles Fletcher (1549-1611)

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604)  (in Luminarium)

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

Sir Walter Ralegh (1552-1618)  (in Luminarium)

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)  (in Luminarium)

Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554-1628)  (in Luminarium)

John Lyly  (1554-1606)  (in Luminarium)

George Peele (1556-1596)

Thomas Watson (c. 1557-1592)

Thomas Morley (1557/58-1602)

Chidiock Tichborne (ca. 1558-86)

William Warner (ca. 1558-1609)

Thomas Lodge (1558-1625)

Robert Greene (1560-1592)

Sir John Harrington (1560-1612)

William Fowler (1560-1612)

Anthony Munday (1560-1633)

Robert Southwell  (1561-1595)  (in Luminarium)

Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621)  (in Luminarium)

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)  (in Luminarium)

Henry Constable (1562-1613)

Michael Drayton:  (1562-1631)  (in Luminarium)

Charles Best (?-?)

E. C. (?-?)

William Smith (?-?)

Richard Lynche (?-?)

Bartholomew Griffin (?-?)

Samuel Daniel:  (1562-1619)  (in Luminarium)

Joshua Sylvester (c. 1563-1618)

Christopher Marlowe:  (1564-1593)  (in Luminarium)

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

John Davies of Hereford (c.1565-1618)

Richard Devereux, Earl of Essex (1566 -1601)

King James I (1566-1625)  (in Luminarium)

John Hoskins (1566-1638)

Thomas Nashe:  (1567-1601)  (in Luminarium)

Thomas Campion:  (1567-1620)  (in Luminarium)

Alexander Craig (1567-1627)

Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639)

William Alabaster (1568-1640)

Barnabe Barnes (c.1569-1609)

Sir John Davies:  (1569-1626)  (in Luminarium)

Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645)

Thomas Middleton:  (1570-1627)  (in Luminarium)

Thomas Dekker:  (1570?-1632)  (in Luminarium)

Robert Aytoun (1570 - 1638) 

Martin Peerson (1571?-1650)

Ben Jonson:  (1572-1637)  (in Luminarium)

John Donne:  (1573-1631)  (in Luminarium)

Richard Barnfield (1574-1627)

Thomas Heywood (1574?-1650)

John Marston (1575?-1634)

William Percy(1575-1648)

 
 
 
 

 

Poets:  alphabetically by last name

Alabaster, William (1568-1640)

Anonymous (1555?)

Aytoun, Robert (1570 - 1638) 

Bacon, Sir Francis (1561-1626)  (in Luminarium)

Barnes, Barnabe (c.1569-1609)

Barnfield, Richard (1574-1627)

Best, Charles (?-?)

Breton, Nicholas (1545-1626?)

Campion, Thomas  (1567-1620)  (in Luminarium)

Constable, Henry (1562-1613)

Craig, Alexander (1567-1627)

Daniel, Samuel  (1562-1619)  (in Luminarium)

Davies, John (of Hereford) (c.1565-1618)

Davies, Sir John  (1569-1626)  (in Luminarium)

Dekker,  Thomas  (1570?-1632)  (in Luminarium)

Devereux, Richard, Earl of Essex (1566 -1601)

Donne,  John  (1573-1631)  (in Luminarium)

Drayton, Michael  (1562-1631)  (in Luminarium)

Dyer, Edward (1543?-1607)

E. C. (?-?)

Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)  (in Luminarium)

Fletcher, Giles (1549-1611)

Fowler, William (1560-1612)

Gascoigne, George (1539-1578)  (in Luminarium)

Googe, Barnabe (1540-1594)

Gray, William (of Reading) (?-1557)

Greene, Robert (1560-1592)

Greville, Fulke, Lord Brooke (1554-1628)  (in Luminarium)

Griffin, Bartholomew (?-?)

Grimald, Nicholas (1519-1563)

Harrington, Sir John (1560-1612)

Hawes, Stephen (ca. 1475-1511)

Henry VIII (1491-1547)  (in Luminarium)

Herbert, Mary (Sidney), Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621)  (in Luminarium)

Heywood, John (1497?-1580?)

Heywood, Thomas (1574?-1650)

Hoskins, John (1566-1638)

Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547)  (in Luminarium)

Hunnis, William (?-1597)

James I (1566-1625)  (in Luminarium)

Jonson,  Ben  (1572-1637)  (in Luminarium)

Lanyer, Aemilia (1569-1645)

Lodge, Thomas (1558-1625)

Lyly,  John  (1554-1606)  (in Luminarium)

Lynche, Richard (?-?)

Marlowe, Christopher  (1564-1593)  (in Luminarium)

Marston, John (1575?-1634)

Middleton,  Thomas  (1570-1627)  (in Luminarium)

Montgomerie, Alexander (1545?-1597?)

Morley, Thomas (1557/58-1602)

Munday, Anthony (1560-1633)

Nashe, Thomas  (1567-1601)  (in Luminarium)

Peele, George (1556-1596)

Peerson, Martin (1571?-1650)

Percy, William (1575-1648)

Ralegh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)  (in Luminarium)

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)  (in Luminarium)

John Skelton, 1460?-1529  (in Luminarium)

Smith, William (?-?)

Somerset, Edward

Southwell, Robert, S.J.  (1561-1595)  (in Luminarium)

Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)

Stevenson, William (1530?-1575)

Stuart, King James I (1566-1625)  (in Luminarium)

Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of (1517-1547)  (in Luminarium)

Sylvester, Joshua (c. 1563-1618)

Tichborne, Chidiock (ca. 1558-86)

Tottel's Miscellany (1557)  

Tudor, King Henry VIII (1491-1547)  (in Luminarium)

Tudor, Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)  (in Luminarium)

Tusser, Thomas (1524?-1580)

Vaux, Thomas (Lord Vaux) (1509-1556)