This site provides a selection of major authors and works associated with English literature, ranging from Geoffrey Chaucer to Sir Isaac Newton. Each author's page contains online texts of the author's works, essays about the author and works, a biography, memorable quotes, and much more. Most also include a clip of music from the author's period.

This site provides an indepth introduction to the Cavalier Poets. Includes links to related people and topics.

Click through this site to find a brief biography of Henry Vaughan, a chronology of his life, links to his works, and essays about his works.

This site contains links to texts of many works by Richard Lovelace. "The world will have forgotten all the great masterpieces of literature when it forgets Lovelace's three verses to Lucasta on his going to the wars." --Thomas Aldrich

Luminarium offers Chaucer quotes, a biography, a collection of Chaucer's works, both in Middle and Modern English, a selection of essays about his times and his works and links to much of the other scholarly information about Chaucer on the Web. RL.9-10.6 cultural World Lit

Detailed biographical profile of the poet John Donne. Includes related resources and a portrait.

Listed as Medieval literature, you can find authors from the 14th and 15th centuries here, as some are considered Renaissance writers. Excellent resource with links to extensive info on the writers including Chaucer, Langland, and Gawain.

Text of Robert Herrick's "Delight in Disorder."Provides source of the poem, but does not offer any commentary or notes about the poet or the poem. The best part is a link to a comprehensive collection of Herrick's work. Plus, they are presented in a logical manner.

A clickable list to selected full-text works by John Donne, including songs, sonnets, elegies, epigrams, and satires.

A complete guide to the works of Robert Herrick. Contains the text to a number of works by Herrick.

This website provides links to full texts of Middle English song lyrics, which are illustraed with illuminated manuscript art and fully annotated. Links to essays, articles, and related resources.

A site with links to various Middle English works and their lyrics. Several images and related links.

Part of the Herrick section of the Luminarium site, this is a concise biography with links to more information.

This site contains a biography and timeline of Sir Francis Bacon's life, as well as texts of many of his works, and critical essays about his works.

In addition to providing both Modern English and Middle English texts of Malory's "Morte d'Arthur, Luminarium provides several biographies, and essays on Malory and his works.

Contains a plethora of links to websites related to the 17th century. Literature, music, history, politics, and the role of woman are all covered by these links.

Links from this site access biographical information concerning Thomas Campion, texts of his works, articles and essays about his works, and a list of other available sources.

This site is a biography of Thomas Carew. It contains quotes from several of his best known poems, a brief biography, a timeline of his life, links to many of his poems which can be read here online, a number of essays about Carew and his work, and links to other Thomas Carew sites.

Clickable list to full-text examples of the sonnets and blank verse poems of this English renaissance poet.

Listing of works of the English renaissance poet John Skelton (1460-1529) with links to actual text.