(1618 - 1702) English poet, translator of Seneca, Royalist, and Clerk of His Majesty's Ordinance; lost his Clerk's position during the Interregnum, but regained it with the Restoration and was knighted by Charles II in 1682 for services to the Crown.
(1596 - 1666) English playwright, schoolmaster, and poet; wrote over 30 plays; royalist who fought against Parliamentary forces during Civil War; died as a consequence of the Great Fire of London in 1666.
from The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armor of Achilles: [1659]
Death the Leveler
(Apr 3, 1835 - Aug 14, 1921) American poet and fiction writer; encouraged to publish by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and introduced into literary society by him; after her marriage, her homes in Washington and Long Island became centers for literary society.
(Oct 8, 1833 - Jan 18, 1908) American poet, literary critic, and anthologist; Civil War correspondent for New York World; formed his own brokerage company and gained a seat on the New York Stock Exchange; edited the works of Poe and two major collections of American poetry; President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters [1904,1907]; encouraged
many young writers including Hamlin Garland, Edwin Arlington Robinson,
Harriet Monroe, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Richard Hovey, and William Vaughn
Moody.
(1861 - 1941) Indian (Bengali) Poet and Novelist, Paintr and Composer; winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature; knighted; resigned his knighthood in 1919 in protest of British repression in Punjab
(Aug 12, 1854 - Sep 13, 1925) American poet, novelist, children's writer, and nature essayist; in 1881, Helen Hunt Jackson procured publication of her first poems; became a reader for Harper's in 1908; strongly influenced by Greek classicism and John Keats.
(1834 - 1882) English Poet, Journalist, and Essayist; wrote under the name of "B. V." ("Bysshe Vanolis") to distinguish his work from an earlier James Thomson
(1524? - 1580) English poet, musician, and farmer; possessed an encyclopedic
knowledge of agriculture which was embodied in the many editions of his
Husbandry, one of the best-selling books in Elizabethan and Jacobean
England