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-- John Donne (1572-1631)

• The Good-Morrow
• The Canonization
• A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning (1633)
• The Sun Rising
• Air and Angels
• The Relic
• Elegy XIX (On his Mistress' Going to Bed)
• Good Friday, 1613, Riding Westward
• Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness
• Sermon XV ("The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death")

-- Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

• Every Man in His Humour (1598)
• Every Man Out of His Humour (1599)
• Sejanus (1603)
• Vopone (1606)
• Bartholomew Fair (1614)

-- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

• Essays (1597-1625)
• The Proficience and Advancement of Learning (1605)
• Novum Organum (1620)
• The New Atlantis (1627)

-- Sir Thomas Overbury (1581-1613)

• A Wife (1614)

-- John Earle (1601?-1665)

• Microcosmography (1628)

-- Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

• Prayer to Ben Jonson (1648)
• His Grange, or Private Wealth
• Upon Julia's Clothes (1648)
• The Country Life
• Hesperides (1648)

-- Richard Lovelace (1618-1657)

• To Althea, from Prison (1649)
• To Lucasta, Going to the Wars (1649)

-- Thomas Carew (1594-1640)

• Elegy on the Death of Donne

-- George Herbert (1593-1633)

• The Temple (1633)

-- Edmund Waller (1606-1687)

• Go, Lovely Rose (1645)
• On a Girdle (1645)

-- Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)

• A Doubt of Martyrdom
• The Constant Lover

-- Richard Lovelace (1618-1657)

• Lucasta (1649)

-- Sir John Denham (1615-1669)

• Coopers Hill (1642)

-- Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)

• To His Coy Mistress
• Upon Appleton House
• The Garden (1681)
• The Mower Against Gardens
• Lancelot Andrewes
• Whitehall Sermon ("A cold coming they had of it")

-- Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

• The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying (1651)

-- Robert Burton

• The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)

-- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)

• The Compleat Angler (1653)
• Hydriotaphia (1658)

-- Izaak Walton (1593-1683)

• Life of John Donne (1640)

-- John Milton (1608-1674)

• Paradise Lost (1667)
• Lycidas
• Samson Agonistes
• L'Allegro
• Il Penseroso
• Sonnet XV (Piedmont Massacre)
• Sonnet XVI (On His Blindness)
• Areopagetica
• Of Education

-- Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)

• Poetical Blossoms (1633)
• Love's Riddle (1638)

-- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)

• Hudibras

-- John Bunyan (1628-1688)

• The Pilgrim's Progress (1678)

-- John Rochester (1648-1680)

• A Satire Against Mankind
• The Imperfect Enjoyment
• To the Postboy
• Artimisia to Chloe

-- George Etherege (ca. 1635-1691)

• The Man of Mode (1676)

-- William Wycherley (1641-1715)

• The Country Wife (1675)

-- George Farquhar (1677-1707)

• The Beaux' Strategm (1707)

-- William Congreve (1670-1729)

• The Way of the World (1700)

-- John Dryden (1631-1700)

• Annus Mirabilis (1667)
• To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew (1686)
• Religio Laici (1682)
• Absalom and Achitophel (1682)
• To My Kinsman, John Driden
• Essay of Dramatic Poetry (1668)
• All for Love (1677)

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