Specimens of the Later English Poets

Born

Died O Na:haniel Lee, - - - - - 1691 10 Thomas Shadwell, - -

1640

1692 11 William Mountford, . .. 1659 1692 12 Sir William Killigrew, - - 1605 1593 13 Sir Robert Howard, - .

1698 14 Charles Hopkins, - • • 1664 1700 15 John Dryden, · · · .. 1631 1701 16 Sir Charles Sedley, - - - 1639 1701 17 John Pomfret, - - - - 1677 1703 18 John Crowne, - - - - abt. 1704 19 Charles Sackville, Earl of

· Dorset, - • • • , - 1637. 1704. 20 George Stepney, - -'. 1663 1707 21 George Farquhar,

1707 22 John Phillips, - - 1676 1708 23 William Walsh, .. 1663 1702 24 Thomas Betterton, - - - 1635 1710 25 Lady Chudleigh, - - - 1656 1710 26 Richard Duke, ..

1710 27 Edmund Smith, - - - - 1668, 1710 28 William King, - - - - 1668. 1712 29. Arthur Maynwaring, .., 1668 1712 30 William Harrison, - - - - 1713 31 Thomas Sprat, - - - - 1656 : 1713 32 William Wycherley, ... 1640 1715

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33 Mary Monk, - - - - - -
34 Charles Montague, Earl of

Halifax, - - - - - - 1661
35 Sir Samuel Garth, - - - -
36 Thomas Parnell, - - 1679
37 Peter Antony Motteaux, - 1669
38 Nicholas Rowe, - - - - 1673
39 Henry Needler, - ... 1690
40 Joseph Addison, - - - - 1672
41 John Hughes, - - - - 1677
42 John Sheffield, Duke of

Buckingham, - - - - - 1649
43 Anne, Countess of Winchelsea,
44 Matthew Prior, - - - - 1664
45 Thomas D'Urfey, - -
46 Charles Gildon, - - 1665
47 De La Rivierre Manly,
48 Elkannah Settle, - 1666
49 George Sewell, - -
50 Nicholas Brady, - - 1659
51 Sir John Vanbrugh, -
52 William Pattison, - 1706
53 Richardson Pack, a
54 William Congreve,

1762
55 Sir Richard Blackmore, a

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Died 56 Laurence Eusden, - - - -

1730 57 Elijah Fenton, -

1730 58 Daniel De Foe, - - - - 1670 1731 59 Jabez Hughes, - - 1685 1731 60 John Gray, - - - - 1688 1732 61 John Dennis, - - - - - 1647 1733 62 Constantia Grierson, - . 1706 1733 63 George Granville, Lord Lans

downe, ------ 1667 1735 64 Samuel Wesley, 1st. -

1734 65 Mary Barber, ...

pub. 1735 66 Thomas Yalden, - 1669 1736 67 Eustace Budgell, .

1685 1736 68 H. Price, -

- --pub. 1736 69 Elizabeth Rowe, - 1674 1737 70 Matthew Green, - - 1696 1737 71 Thomas Sheridan,

1737 72 Joseph Mitchell, - - 1684 1738 73 Samuel Wesley, 2d.

1739 74 John Oldmixon, - ..

1742 75 Thomas Tickell, .. 1686

1710 76 Jane Brereton, - - 1685 1740 77 Nicholas Amhurst, - -

1742 78 William Hinchcliffe, - - 1692 79 William Somerville, - - 1692 1742

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Born

80 James Hammond, - .. 1710

86 Richard Savage, - - - 1697

87 Lord Harvey, - - - -

88 Lewis Theobald, ..

89 Alexander Pope, - - 1688

90 James Miller, - .. 1703

91 William Broome, .. -
92 John Whaley, -.
93 Jonathan Swift, - 1667
94 Mary Chandler, - - - - 1687
95 Thomas Warton, - - - 1687
96 William Meston, - about 1688
97 Robert Langley, uncertain
98 Thomas Southern - -' 1660
99 Robert Blair, - ... - 1694
100 Mary Leapor, - - - - 1722
101 Isaac Watts, ... - - 1674
102 Christopher Pitt; - - - 1699
103 James Thomson, - -. 1700
104 Ambrose Phillips, . -. 1671

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Born

105 Catharine Cockburne, - 1679

106 Leonard Welstead, - - - 1688