| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 397 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 151 |
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Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 151
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| Contents |
Thomas Adams (1582 or 1583-circa 1652) -- Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626) -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Augustine Baker (1575-1641) -- Richard Brathwait (circa 1588-1673) -- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Lady Ann Clifford (1590-1676) -- Sir William Cornwallis the Younger (circa 1579-1614) -- Thomas Coryate (1577?-1617) -- John Cosin (1595-1672) -- Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) -- John Donne (1572-1631) -- John Earle (1600 or 1601-1665) -- Eikon Basilike (1649) -- Owen Felltham (1602?-1668) -- Sir Robert Filmer (circa 1586-1653) -- Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) -- John Hales (1584-1656) -- Joseph Hall (1574-1656) -- Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582-1648) -- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) -- James Howell (1594?-1666) -- James VI of Scotland, I of England (1566-1625) -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Sir Thomas Overbury (circa 1581-1613) -- Henry Peacham (1578-1544?)-Samuel Purchas (1577?-1626) -- Alexander Ross (1591-1654) -- Richard Sibbes (1577-1635) -- Jeremy Taylor (circa 1613-1667) -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) |
| Summary |
Prose emanating from an exceedingly contentious and eventful period full of the gravest intellectual, religious, and political tensions. The product of a literary revolution that took shape during the final years of Queen Elizabeth and carried over into the reigns of King James and his son, Charles I |
| Notes |
"A Bruccoli Clark Layman book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-330) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Authors, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography -- Dictionaries
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English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Bio-bibliography
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English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Dictionaries
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| Genre/Form |
Bio-bibliography.
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Biographies.
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Dictionaries.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lein, Clayton D.
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Gale Research Inc
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| LC no. |
95005786 |
| ISBN |
0810357127 |
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9780810357129 |
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