The 16th century lasts from 1501-1600. William Shakespeare was writing his plays in this age of Queen Elizabeth. Read more about 16th-century writers.

(1485-1603) The Renaissance (rebirth) featured the works of William Shakespeare, Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, and many other writers. Read more about Renaissance literature.

Read what happened in Literature: 16th century.: william shakespeare sonnets sir edward dyer astrophil and stella sir thomas wyatt sir philip sidney

In this book, Katherine McAlpine and Gail White bring together works that respond to the Muse archetype. As the editors explain:

(1792-1822) British writer. Percy Shelley is known for A Defense of Poetry, Ode to the West Wind, Prometheus Unbound, and other works during the Romantic period.

In Classical mythology, the Muse is one of the nine (originally three) Greek goddesses who preside over literature and the arts. Though time, male writers have invoked the Muse as an inspirational force... In this book, Katherine McAlpine and Gail W

The tales of English history have captured our imaginations and inspired some of our greatest classics. Characters from history like Geoffrey Chaucer, William Caxton, Thomas More, William Tyndale, Sir Francis Drake, and Queen Elizabeth are prominent

A collection of classic poems on the passage of time and the human impulse to “Seize the Day,” from the original “carpe diem” poem among the odes of Horace, to expressions of the theme in English poems by William Shakespeare, Thomas Jordan, R

A collection of poems for summer, including an anonymous medieval lyric and classics by Li Po, Thomas Nashe, William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, William Blake, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, John Greenleaf Whittier, John Clare, Walt Whitman,

English love poems of the Renaissance era by six poets.