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Poets with tag Elizabethan:

Elizabethan literature refers to bodies of work produced during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603), and is one of the most splendid ages of English literature.

In the later 16th century, English poetry was characterised by elaboration of language and extensive allusion to classical myths.

Name	Years	Country	Tags	Works	Rank
Henry Howard	1517-1547	ENG	Elizabethan, Renaissance	27	347
Queen Elizabeth I	1533-1603	ENG	Elizabethan	10	203
Edmund Spenser	1552-1599	ENG	Elizabethan, Fantasy, Gothic, Laureate, Renaissance, Sonnet	171	100
Walter Raleigh	1552-1618	ENG	Didactism, Elizabethan	28	191
Philip Sidney	1554-1586	ENG	Renaissance, Elizabethan, Sonnet	131	179
Samuel Daniel	1562-1620	ENG	Sonnet, Laureate, Elizabethan	68	188
Michael Drayton	1563-1631	ENG	Sonnet, Elizabethan	79	241
William Shakespeare	1564-1616	ENG	Blank verse, Classicism, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Didactism, Sonnet, Slavery, National, Fantasy, Homoerotism	198	3
Christopher Marlowe	1564-1593	ENG	Atheism, Blank verse, Elizabethan, Renaissance	10	171
John Donne	1572-1631	ENG	Christian, Didactism, Elizabethan, Enlightenment, Fantasy, Metaphysical poets, Philosophy, Renaissance, Satire, Sonnet	172	27
Ben Jonson	1572-1637	ENG	Blank verse, Elizabethan, Enlightenment, Laureate, Renaissance	93	118
Robert Herrick	1591-1674	ENG	Cavalier poets, Didactism, Elizabethan, Fantasy, Tribe of Ben	276	40

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