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William Blake
Francis Bourdillon
Anne Bradstreet
Elizabeth Browning
Robert Browning
Robert Burns
Lord Byron
Thomas Campbell
Bliss Carman
John Clare
Samuel Coleridge
Samuel Daniel
Emily Dickinson
John Donne
William Douglas
Michael Drayton
Anne Finch
Stephen Foster
Robert Frost
Robert Herrick
Leigh Hunt
Omar Khayyam
Benjamin Jonson
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Christopher
Marlowe
(1564-1593)
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Poet and
playwright Christopher Marlowe was the son of a shoemaker. He was
considered the first great English dramatist before William
Shakespeare. He concentrated almost entirely on tragedy whereas earlier
poets concentrated on comedy. He was educated at the University of
Cambridge, and after he went to London, he became associated with the Admiral's
Men, a company of actors for whom he wrote most of his plays. Some claim he was
also a secret agent for the government.
He was
stabbed to death in a tavern brawl at Deptford over the payment of a dinner
bill.
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John Milton
Caroline Norton
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J. B. O'Reilly
Daniel Rossetti
John Ruskin
Shakespeare
Percy Shelley
Philip Sidney
Edmund Spenser
C. A. Swinburne
Joshua Sylvester
Walt Whitman
J. G. Whittier
John Wilbye
W. Wordsworth
William B. Yeats
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