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10 poets born between 1500 and 1599 - Poetry Connection

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Chronological listing of poets featured on Poetry Connection

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Poet
Lived
Poems
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Click here to read about Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser
(1552 - 1599)
158
9,302
Click here to read about Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney
(1554 - 1586)
76
6,932
Click here to read about Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh
(1554 - 1618)
22
11,943
Click here to read about Michael Drayton
Michael Drayton
(1563 - 1631)
80
4,410
Click here to read about Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe
(1564 - 1593)
6
3,599
Click here to read about William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
(1564 - 1616)
155
6,436
Click here to read about John Donne
John Donne
(1572 - 1631)
70
8,568
Click here to read about Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson
(1572 - 1637)
41
5,703
Click here to read about John Fletcher
John Fletcher
(1579 - 1625)
14
1,046
Click here to read about William Drummond
William Drummond
(1585 - 1649)
6
961

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