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作家 生卒 头衔 主要作品 unknown unknown national epic of the Anglo-Saxons first great English literary work Beowulf Geoffrey Chaucer 1300-1400 Father of English poetry The Canterbury Tales John Wycliff 1324?-1384 Father of English prose Bible translation William Langland 1330?-1400? Dream vision Piers the Plowman Thomas More 1478-1535 Reformation martyr Utopia Sir Thomas Wyatt 1503-1542 sonnet introducer Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 1516/1517-1547 one of the founders of English Renaissance poetry Edmund Spenser 1552?-1599 Poet Laureate/ Spenserian stanza The Faerie Queene The Shepheardes Calender John Lyly 1553?-1606 Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit Sir Philip Sidney 1554-1586 Astrophel and Stella The Defence of Poetry Francis Bacon 1561-1626 the progenitor of English materialism/ Father of Experimental Science Essay Christopher Marlowe 1564-1593 foremost Elizabethan tragedian Doctor Faustus Tamburlaine The Jew of Malta William Shakespeare 1564-1616 pre-eminent dramatists A Midsummer Nights Dream The Merchant of Venice As You Like It Twelfth Night Macbeth Hamlet King Lear Othello John Donne 1572-1631 Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral/ Metaphysical poets Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star Ben Jonson 1572-1637 the 1st poet laureate Volpone The Alchemist Song to Celia George Herbert 1593-1633 the saint of the Metaphysical school Virtue King James 1611 King James Bible John Milton 1608-1674 Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Samson Agonistes John Bunyan 1628-1688 The Pilgrims Progress John Dryden 1631-1700 Glorious John/ Poet Laureate/the master of the middle style All for Love An essay of Dramatic Poesy Daniel Defoe 1661-1731 Robinson Crusoe Moll Flanders Jonathan Swift 1667-1745 Gullivers Travels A Modest Proposal A Tale of a Tub Joseph Addison 1672-1719 The Tatler Richard Steele 1672-1729 The Spectator Samuel Richardson 1680-1761 Pamela: Or, Virtue