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Chronological Index

Use the chronological index to find authors from a related period of time. For the most part, authors are grouped in a period according to when they produced most of their poetic works. Thus, an author born in 1778 is probably found in the 1800-1850 period. The actual birth/death dates may be found by following the link to the specific author.

 

1350

Geoffrey Chaucer

1500

Nicholas Grimald
Stephen Hawes
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Michelangelo
John Skelton
Thomas, Lord Vaux
Sir Thomas Wyatt

1550

Nicholas Breton
Thomas Campion
Henry Constable
Samuel Daniel
Richard Devereux, Earl of Essex
Sir Edward Dyer
George Gascoigne
Robert Greene
Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke
Sir John Harrington
John Heywood
Thomas Heywood
William Hunnis
Thomas Lodge
John Lyly
Christopher Marlowe
John Marston
Anthony Munday
Harold Munro
Thomas Nashe
George Peele
Sir Walter Ralegh
William Shakespeare
Sir Philip Sidney
Robert Southwell
Sir Edmund Spenser
Chidiock Tichborne
Thomas Tusser
Edward De Vere

1600

Sir Robert Aytoun
Anne Bradstreet
Alexander Brome
William Browne of Tavistock
Thomas Carew
John Cleveland
Abraham Cowley
Richard Crashaw
William Davenant
Sir John Davies
Thomas Dekker
John Donne
Michael Drayton
William Drummond of Hawthornden
John Fletcher
Louis Golding
James Graham, First Marquis of Montrose
William Drummond of Hawthronden
George Herbert
Robert Herrick
John Hoskins
Ben Jonson
Henry King
Richard Lovelace
Thomas Middleton
John Milton
Francis Quarles
Thomas Randolph
James Shirley
Sir John Suckling
Henry Vaughan
Izaak Walton
John Webster
George Wither
Sir Henry Wotton

1650

Lascelles Abercrombie
Fredric James Alden
Richard Aldington
Anne Reeve Aldrich
Alqamah
Anakreon
George Arnold
Kenneth H. Ashley
Margaret Lee Ashley
Janet Norris Bangs
Aphra Behn
John Adams Bellows
Charles Best
Francis Bickley
Joseph Warren Bishop
Maxwell Bodenheim
John Henry Boner
Gamaliel Bradford
Lt. Paul Brewsher
Dana Burnet
C. Kennet Burrow
John Byrom
A. Y. Campbell
Robert Argyle Campbell
Patrick R. Chalmers
Grace Ellery Channing
John Vance Cheney
Oscar C.A. Child
George Herbert Clarke
Reginald McIntosh Cleveland
Ebenezer Cook
Charles Cotton
Isaac Joslyn Cox
Charlotte Holmes Crawford
Gerald Crow
Moray Dalton
Erasmus Darwin
Ozora Stearns Davis
Fannie Stearns Davis
W. Macneile Dixon
John Dickinson
Camilla Doyle
John Dryden
Paul Eldridge
Ephelia
Arthur Davison Ficke (Anne Knish)
A. N. Field
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
Mahlon Leonard Fisher
William Byron Forbush
John Ford
Henry Richard Foster
William Davis Gallagher
John Galsworthy
Wilfred Wilson Gibson
Oliver St. John Gogarty
Charles Buxton Going
Robert Grant
Alexander Gray
Warren Feno Gregory
Edwin Osgood Grover
Arthur Guiterman
Dorothy Frances Gurney
Herman Hagedorn
James Norman Hall
Newton Marshall Hall
G. Rostrevor Hamilton
Ruth Guthrie Harding
John Helston
Ernest Hemingway
Malcom Hemphrey
Lord Herbert of Cherbury
Ethel M. Hewitt
Maurice Hewlett
Thomas Heyrick
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Francis Hill
Robert Hillyer
Prescott Hoard
Ralph Hodgson
Florence T. Holt
Herbert Salisbury Hopkins
Laurence Housman
Lt. Geoffrey Howard
Mildred Howells
William Dean Howells
Percy Adams Hutchison
Henry William Hutchinson
Lt. Dyneley Hussey
Aldous Huxley
Washington Irving
Helen Hunt Jackson
Herbert Jones
Thomas Jordan
Herbert Kaufman
Joyce Kilmer
James H. Knight-Adkin
Kent Knowlton
Daniel Luther Lawrence
Joseph Lee
Richard Le Gallienne
Sir Roger L'Estrange
Charles Mackay
Marguerite Mooers Marshall
Andrew Marvell
Thomas B. Masson
Beaulah May
Gerald Miller
Louise Chandler Moulton
Fitz-James O'Brien
John O'Keefe
Moira O'Neill (Nesta Shakespeare Higginson Skrine)
Sydney Oswald
Eberhard Owen
Thomas Paine
Herbert E. Palmer
Martin Parker
Fred Lewis Pattee
Harlan Colby Pearson
H. D. C. Pepler
Margaret Peterson
Katherine Philips
John Philips
Henry Hildreth Piper
Max Plowman
John Pomfret
Matthew Prior
Wilder Dwight Quint
Ben Ray Redman
Lizette Woodworth Reese
Charles Alexander Richmond
Alexander Robertson
Charles Frederic Robinson
Gertrude Robinson Ross
Victoria Sackville-West
Edmund Beale Sargant
Edmund Hamilton Sears
Sir Charles Sedley
George Charles Selden
Sir Edward Sherburne
Osbert Sitwell
Bertrand A. Smalley
Christopher Smart
W. Snow
Harriet Prescott Spofford
J.C. Squire
Edmund Clarence Stedman
Ruth Sterry
J.E. Steward
Muriel Stuart
Walter Seager Sullivan
John Bannister Tabb
Nahum Tate
Edith Matilda Thomas
Stanley Thomas
Marshall Putnam Thompson
Thomas Traherne
Robert Calverley Trevelyan
Ada Tyrrell
Harold Vinal
Edmund Waller
William Walsh
C. Henry Warren
Amelia B. Welby
Michael Wigglesworth
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
William Winter
Humbert Wolfe
Thomas Ybarra

1700

Joseph Addison
William Broome
Henry Carey
Colley Cibber
William Collins
Henry Fielding
John Gay
Oliver Goldsmith
Thomas Gray
Aaron Hill
Mary Leapor
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
William Oldys
Thomas Parnell
Ambrose Philips
Alexander Pope
Allan Ramsay
William Shenstone
William Somerville
Jonathan Swift
James Thomson
Isaac Watts

1750

Mark Akenside
John Codrington Bampfylde
Benjamin Banneker
Anna Lætitia Barbauld
James Beattie
William Blake
William Lisle Bowles
Robert Burns
Sir John Carr
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Cowper
John Cunningham
Charles Dibdin
Timothy Dwight
George Ellis
Nathaniel Evans
David Everett
Philip Freneau
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Jupitor Hammon
Richard Jago
Samuel Johnson
Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
John Newton
Robert Treat Paine
Samuel Rogers
John Scott of Amwell
John Shaw
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Charlotte Smith
Augustus Montague Toplady
John Trumbull
Royall Tyler
Joseph Warton
Thomas Warton
Phillis Wheatley
Gilbert White
William Whitehead
Alexander Wilson
John Wolcot ("Peter Pindar")
William Wordsworth

1800

John Quincy Adams
Sarah Flower Adams
Cecil Frances Alexander
Washington Allston
William Edmondstoune Aytoun
Philip James Bailey
Joanna Bailley
William Barnes
Bernard Barton
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Laman Blanchard
John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
Anne Brontë
Branwell Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
William Cullen Bryant
Lord Byron, George Gordon
Thomas Campbell
Lydia Maria Child
John Clare
'V' (Carolyn Clive)
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hartley Coleridge
Barry Cornwall
Christopher Pearse Cranch
Allan Cunningham
Richard Henry Dana
George Darley
Ebenezer Elliott
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Margaret Fuller, Marchioness Ossoli
Fitz-Greene Halleck
Reginald Heber
Heinrich Heine
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
James Hogg
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Thomas Hood
Leigh Hunt
Ebenezer Jones
John Keats
Francis Scott Key
Coates Kinney
William Knox
Charles Lamb
L.E.L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
Walter Savage Landor
Abraham Lincoln
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry F.Lyte
Thomas Babbington Macaulay
Siegfried August Mahlmann
James Clarence Mangan
Clemment C.(Clarke) Moore
Thomas Moore
George Pope Morris
Caroline Norton
John Howard Payne
Thomas Love Peacock
James Gates Percival
John Pierpoint
Edward Coote Pinkney
Edgar Allan Poe
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
Epes Sargeant
Sir Walter Scott
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lydia H. Sigourney
William Gilmore Simms
Horace Smith
Robert Southey
Alfred Lord Tennyson
William Makepeace Thackeray
Henry David Thoreau
Charles Turner
Alaric Alexander Watts
Joseph Blanco White (José Maria Blanco)
John Greenleaf Whittier
Carlos Wilcox
Richard Henry Wilde
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Charles Wolfe
Samuel Woodworth
Dorothy Wordsworth

1850

Henry Brooks Adams
A.E. (George William Russell)
Louisa May Alcott
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
William Allingham
Edwin Arnold
Matthew Arnold
Alfred Austin
Katharine Lee Bates
Ethyl Lynn Beers
Hilaire Belloc
Arthur Christopher Benson
Ambrose Bierce
Mathilde Blind
George Henry Boker
Francis William Bourdillon
Robert Bridges
Mabel Down Brine
Phillips Brooks
Thomas Edward Brown
Henry Cuyler Bunner
Amelia Josephine Burr
John Burroughs
Charles S. Calverley
Joseph Campbell (Seosamh MacCathmhaoil)
Wilfred Campbell
Bliss Carman
Julia A. (Fletcher) Carney
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
William Herbert Carruth
Charles Edward Carryl
Alice Cary
Phoebe Cary
Madison Cawein
John White Chadwick
Elizabeth C. Clephane
Florence Earle Coates
Mary E. Coleridge
Grace Hazard Conkling
Eliza Cook
Rose Terry Cooke
William Cory
Stephen Crane
Isaballa Valancy Crawford
Hugh Antoine D'Arcy
John Davidson
Margaret Deland
Emily Dickinson
Richard Watson Dixon
Sydney Dobell (wrote as Sydney Yendys)
Austin Dobson
Mary Mapes Dodge
Edward Dowden
Ernest Dowson
Sir Francis Hastings Doyle
Joseph Rodman Drake
Paul Laurence Dunbar
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
Thomas Dunn English
Edgar Fawcett
Eugene Field
Michael Field
James T. Fields
Francis Miles Finch
John Finley
Edward FitzGerald
Sam Walter Foss
Stephen Foster
Gilbert Frankau
Norman Rowland Gale
Hamlin Garland
Richard Garnett
Emma M. H. Gates
William S. Gilbert
Richard Watson Gilder
Sir Edmund William Gosse
Louise Imogen Guiney
Thomas Hardy
Frances E. W. Harper
Bret Harte
John Hay
Paul Hamilton Hayne
Charles Heavysege
William Ernest Henley
Oliver Herford
Mary Thacher Higginson
Arthur Clement Hilton
Charles Fenno Hoffman
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Laurence Hope (Adela Florence Nicolson, nee Cory)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
George Moses Horton
A.E. (Alfred Edward) Housman
Richard Hovey
Julia Ward Howe
William Reed Huntington
Jean Ingelow
Sarah Orne Jewett
E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
Lionel Johnson
Robert Underwood Johnson
H. G. Keene
Henry Kendall
Ben King
Charles Kingsley
Rudyard Kipling
Archibald Lampman
Andrew Lang
Sidney Lanier
George T. Lanigan
Emma Lazarus
Edward Lear
Walter Learned
Eugene Lee-Hamilton
Henry Sambrooke Leigh
Amy Levy
James Russell Lowell
William Haines Lytle
George MacDonald
Edwin Markham
Peter Dodds McCormick
Alexander McLachlan
Herman Melville
George Meredith
Owen Meredith (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton)
Alice Meynell
Lloyd Mifflin
Joaquin Miller (pen name of Cincinnatus Hiner)
Richard Monckton Milnes
William Vaughn Moody
William Morris
Arthur Munby
Sir Henry Newbolt
R. H. Newell ('Orpheus C. Kerr')
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Grace Fallow Norton
John Boyle O'Reilly
A.W.E. O'Shaughnessy
Francis Turner Palgrave
A.B. (Alan Barton) "Banjo" Paterson
Coventry (Kersey Dighton) Patmore
John Payne
Emily Pfeiffer
Stephen Phillips
John James Piatt
William Sydney Porter (O. Henry)
Alexander Lawrence Posey
Adelaide Anne Procter
Hardwicke Drummon Rawnsley
Thomas Buchanan Reed
James Whitcomb Riley
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Christina Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Francis S. Saltus
George Santayana
John Godfrey Saxe
Frederick George Scott
Frank Dempster Sherman
Dora Sigerson Shorter
Edward Rowland Sill
George R. Sims ('Dragonet')
Menella Bute Smedley
Alexander Smith
Langdon Smith
Alicia Ann Spottiswoode (Lady John Scott)
J. K. Stephen
Robert Louis Stevenson
Trumbull Stickney
Richard Henry Stoddard
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Arthur Symons
John Addington Symonds
Bayard Taylor
Bert Leston Taylor ("B. L. T.")
Frederick Tennyson
Ernest L. Thayer
Francis Thompson
James Thomson ("B.V.")
Henry Timrod
Charles A. Tindley
Mary Ashley Townsend
Herbert Trench
Richard Chenevix Trench
John Townsend Trowbridge
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
Henry Van Dyke
Jones Very
William Ross Wallace
Sir William Watson
Charles H. Webb ('John Paul')
Cornelius Webb
Edith Wharton
Edward Jewitt Wheeler
James Monroe Whitfield
William Whiting
Walt Whitman
George John Whyte-Melville
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Jane Francesca Lady Wilde ('Speranza')
Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde
George Edward Woodberry
Constance Fenimore Woolson
William Butler Yeats
Rida Johnson Young

1900

Franklin P. Adams
Conrad Aiken
Zoë Akins
Herbert Asquith
William Rose Benét
Stephen Vincent Benét
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Laurence Binyon
Louise Bogan
Gordon Bottomly
William Stanley Braithwaite
Rupert Brooke
Richard Burton
Witter Bynner
Willa Cather
Cecil Chesterton
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
Helen Gray Cone
Frances Cornford (nee Frances Crofts Darwin)
Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.
Sgt Leslie Coulson
Hart Crane
Adelaide Crapsey
e.e. cummings
W.H. (William Henry) Davies
Walter De La Mare
Clarence James Dennis
Babette Deutsch
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Lord Alfred Douglas
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
John Drinkwater
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany
T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
Godfrey Elton
Donald Evans
John Chipman Farrar
James Elroy Flecker
John Gould Fletcher
Jeanne Robert Foster
John Freeman
Robert Frost
Rose Fyleman
Theodosia Garrison
Eva Gore-Booth
Robert Graves
Cpt. Julian Grenfell
Edgar A. Guest
Hazel Hall
J. Milton Hayes
William Noel Hodgson
Langston Hughes
Douglas Hyde
Georgia Douglas Johnson
James Weldon Johnson
James Joyce
Alfred Kreymborg
D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Louis V. Ledoux
Francis Ledwidge
Agnes Lee
Winifred Mary Letts
Vachel Lindsay
Amy Lowell
Edward Verrall Lucas
Thomas MacDonagh
Percy MacKaye
Dorothea Mackellar
Archibald MacLeish
Frederic Manning
Don Marquis
John (Edward) Masefield
Walt Mason
Edgar Lee Masters
John McCrae
Claude McKay
Charlotte Mew
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Ruth Comfort Mitchell
Harold Monro
Harriet Monroe
T. Sturge Moore
Charles Langbridge Morgan
Christopher Morley
Charles Murray
Sarojini Naidu
John G. Neihardt
Robert Nichols
Alfred Noyes
Edward J. O'Brien
William Henry Ogilvie
Seamus O Sheel
Seamus O'Sullivan (James Starkey)
Wilfred Owen
Barry Pain
Albert Bigelow Paine
Josephine Preston Peabody
Eden Phillpotts
Marjorie Lowrey Christie Pickthall
Ezra Pound
Arthur T. Quiller-Couch
John Crowe Ransom
A. Victor Ratcliffe
Edgell Rickword
Isaac Rosenberg
Sir Ronald Ross
Robert Alden Sanborn
Carl Sandburg
Siegfried Sassoon
Robert Haven Schauffler
Clinton Scollard
Sir Owen Seaman
Alan Seeger
Robert W. Service
Dame Edith Sitwell
Sacheverell Sitwell
C. (Cicely) Fox Smith
Charles Hamilton Sorley
Gertrude Stein
James Stephens
George Sterling
Wallace Stevens
Archibald T. Strong
Rabindranath Tagore
Allen Tate
Sara Teasdale
E. Wyndham Tennant
Rowland Thirlmere
Edward Thomas
Flora Thompson
George Walter Thornbury
Jean Toomer
Charles Hanson Towne
Katharine Tynan
Evelyn Underhill
Louis Untermeyer
Tertius Van Dyke
Robert Ernest Vernède
Gilbert Waterhouse
Carolyn Wells
John Hall Wheelock
Anna Wickham
William Carlos Williams
T. P. Cameron Wilson
P. G. Wodehouse
Willard Huntington Wright
Elinor Wylie

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