Petrarch

Petrarch

male, deceased (1374)
Italian Renaissance writer, Italian Renaissance humanist, Sonneteers, Renaissance Latin author, Renaissance humanist, Latin writer
Francesco Petrarca (Petrarcha) (July 20, 1304 - July 19, 1374) was an Italian scholar, poet, and early Renaissance humanist. Petrarch is often...
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

male, deceased (1616)
poet, macbeth, hamlet, English poet, Authors whose works are in the public domain, Lord Chamberlain's Men…Sonneteers
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright now widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language and the world's...
Philip Sidney

Philip Sidney

male, deceased (1586) (Smyrna, Georgia, United States)
Sonneteers, poet, from Penshurst, The Defence of Poesy, An Apology for Poetry, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Sir Philip Sidney (November 30, 1554 - October 17, 1586) became one of the Elizabethan Age's most prominent figures. Famous in his day in England...
Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser

male, deceased (1599)
Sonneteers, buried at Westminster Abbey, Old Merchant Taylor, Elizabeth I, tudor, English
Edmund Spenser (c. 1552-13 January, 1599) was an English poet and Poet Laureate. Spenser is a controversial figure due to his zeal for the...
John Donne

John Donne

male, deceased (1631)
convert to Anglicanism, from the City of London, Sonneteers, loyalist, Anglican priest, English
John Donne, 1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean poet and preacher, representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. His works, notable fo...
John Milton

John Milton

male, deceased (1674)
blind, Christian heresy, from the City of London, Sonneteers, Old Pauline, New Latin author
John Milton (December 9, 1608 - November 8, 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist, and civil servant for the English Commonwealth. Most famed...

Thomas Wyatt

male, deceased (1542)
Whoso list to hunt, henry vii, Noli me tangere for Caesar’s I am, maidstone, Sonneteers, Allington Castle
Sir Thomas Wyatt was born at Allington Castle, near Maidstone in Kent, though his family was originally from Yorkshire. His father, Henry Wyatt,...
John Keats

John Keats

male, deceased (1821)
negative capability, Sonneteers, alfred tennyson, english literature, English, death by tuberculosis
John Keats was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. During his short life, his work received constant critical attacks from...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

female, deceased (1861)
English women writer, Sonneteers, Women poet, Victorian poetry, English, victorian era
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (March 6, 1806 - June 29, 1861) was a member of the Barrett family and one of the most respected poets of the Victorian...
Samuel Daniel

Samuel Daniel

male, deceased (1619)
Sonneteers, Former student of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, English, historian, avon, English Poets Laureate
Samuel Daniel (1562 - October 14, 1619) was an English poet and historian.