RENAISSANCE PERIOD (1350-1660) can be divided
into two periods
Chaucerian Period (1350-1400)
- Sir John Mandeville (1300-1371) Written Voyage and Travel
- Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400) Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- John Gower (1330-1408) Confessio Amantis
- Sir Thomas Malory (1415-1471) Morte Darthur
ELIZABETHAN ERA (1500-1660)
- Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) Utopia
- Wyatt and Surrey, The New Poetry
- John Lyly (1553-1606) Euphues and His Anatomie of Wit
- Sir Philip Sydney (1454-1586) Arcadia
- Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) The Shepherd’s Calendar
- George Gascoigne (1530-1577) Lyric Poet
- John Donne (1573-1631) Metaphysical Poet
- Nicholas Udall (1504-1556) Ralph Roister Doister
- Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), The Faire Queene and Dr. Faustus
- Shakespeare's (1564-1616) sonnets and Great Tragedies
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Novum Organum
NATIONAL LIFE (1603-1660)
- Ben Johnson (1573-1631) Volpone and The Alchemist
- John Fletcher (1579–1625) The Mad Lover and The Chances
- John Webster (1580-1634) The White Devil
- James Shirley (1596-166) Love Tricks and the Traitor
- John Milton (1608-1674) Paradise Lost
- John Bunyan (1628-1688) Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
RESTORATION PERIOD (1660-1700)
- Samuel Buttler (1613-1678) Hudibras
- Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) Diary
- John Dryden 1(1631-1700) Absalom and Achitophel
