Joseph Addison (1672-1719) / Richard Eversole -- Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626) / Douglas S. Bruster -- Mary Astell (1666-1731) / Erin Murphy -- John Aubrey (1626-1697) / Keith M. Botelho -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) / Julie Robin Solomon -- Aphra Behn (1640?-1689) / D. Susan Kendrick -- John Blow (1649-1708) / Thomas Howard Crofts III -- Robert Boyle (1627-1691) / Gerald Edward Bunker -- Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) / Gail Wood -- Thomas Browne (1605-1682) / Adam Kitzes -- John Bunyan (1628-1688) / Richard F. Hardin -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) / Albert J. Geritz -- Samuel Butler (1612/1613-1680) / Glenn Sucich -- Thomas Campion (1567-1620) / Ellen Thompson McCabe -- Thomas Carew (c. 1595-1639) / Thomas Howard Crofts III -- Elizabeth Cary (c. 1585-1639) / Pamela K. Shaffer -- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) / Pamela K. Shaffer -- George Chapman (1559?-1634) / Pamela K. Shaffer -- Mary, Lady Chudleigh (1656-1710) / Amy Wolf -- John Cleveland (1613-1658) / Rika Drea -- Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) / Nancy Hager -- Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) / Shelley LePoudre Wiebe -- Richard Crashaw (c. 1613-1649) / Albert J. Geritz -- Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) / John A. Shedd -- William Davenant (1606-1668) / Ron Levao -- John Dennis (1658-1734) / Richard J. Squibbs -- John Donne (1572-1631) / Maureen Godman -- Michael Drayton (1563-1631) / Richard F. Hardin -- John Dryden (1631-1700) / Hugh Macrae Richmond -- Richard Fanshawe (1608-1666) / Ron Harris -- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720) / Amy Wolf -- Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650) / Richard F. Hardin -- John Ford (1586-1639?) / Keith M. Botelho -- Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi (1563-1639 and 1593-1652/1653) / Sonja Hansard-Weiner -- Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554-1628) / Andrew D. Weiner -- William Harvey (1578-1657) / Glenn Sucich -- George Herbert (1593-1633) / Greg Kneidel -- Robert Herrick (1591-1674) / Regina Masiello -- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) / Louis A. Gebhard -- Ben Jonson (1572/1573-1637) / Richard Harp -- Anne Killigrew (1660-1685) / Lorraine Melita -- Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727) / Gail Wood -- Madame de Lafayette (c. 1634-1693) / Nhora Lucia Serrano -- Aemilia Lanyer (1569?-1645) / Erika L. Farr -- John Lilburne (1615-1657) / Bryan A. Hampton -- John Locke (1632-1704) / Louis A. Gebhard -- Richard Lovelace (1618-1657) / Thomas Howard Crofts III -- Delarivier Manley (1672?-1724) / Amy Wolf -- Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) / Hugh Macrae Richmond -- Philip Massinger (1583-1640) / Brian Walsh -- Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) / Mimi Yiu -- John Milton (1608-1674) / Margaret J. Arnold -- Thomas Otway (1652-1685) / John Huntington -- Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) / James Grantham Turner -- Samuel Pufendorf (1632-1694) / Louis A. Gebhard -- Henry Purcell (1659-1695) / Nancy Hager -- Allan Ramsay (1686-1758) / Hugh Macrae Richmond -- Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) / Claire LR. O'Mahony -- Second Earl of Rochester (John Wilmot) (1647-1680) / James Grantham Turner -- Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637-1711) / Gail Wood -- Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) / Claire LR. O'Mahony -- Thomas Shadwell (c. 1642-1692) / Michael Bryson -- Third Earl of Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper) (1671-1713) / Richard J. Squibbs -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) / Vicki Janik -- Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677) / Michael T. Masiello -- John Suckling (1608/1609-1642) / Thomas Howard Crofts III -- Nahum Tate (1652-1715) / Brian Walsh -- John Taylor ("The Water Poet") (1578-1653) / Laurie Ellinghausen -- Cyril Tourneur (1575?-1626) / Patrick D. Enright -- Thomas Traherne (1636?-1674) / Garv Bouchard -- Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) / Claire I.R. O'Mahony -- Henry Vaughan (1621?-1695) / Gary Bouchard -- Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) / Hugh Macrae Richmond -- Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) / Velma Bourgeois Richmond -- Edmund Waller (1606-1687) / Hugh Macrae Richmond -- John Webster (1579?-1633?) / D. Susan Kendrick -- Henry Wotton (1568-1635) / Mimi Yiu -- William Wycherley (1641-1715) / James Grantham Turner.