Renaissance
Edmund Spenser | Biography
October 25, 2026
Edmund Spenser is one of the greatest English poets, the poets’ poet, the New Poet, and the great synthesizer of many ‘heritages’ of the European and British thought and literature. Spenser bridged the medieval and...
Andrew Marvell | Biography
October 16, 2026
Andrew Marvell was a British politician who also belongs to the Metaphysical school of poets; but he was not known like Donne, as a poet during his lifetime. Marvell also belongs to a later age...
Alexander Pope | Biography
October 3, 2026
Alexander Pope was the most influential poet and critic of the 18th century or the neoclassical period of English literature. He is the first professional poet of English literature also. Because the Catholics were not...
Anne Bradstreet | Biography
September 26, 2026
Anne Bradstreet was the first poet in America to publish a volume of poetry. ‘The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up’ in America was published in England in 1650. This book is generally considered the first...
