C16-17 Authors in Time: Who Was Alive When, and What Was Published in their Lifetimes?

1550     1560       1570       1580       1590       1600       1610       1620       1630       1640       1650       1660       1670       1675

Edmund Spenser b.1552----------[Amoretti, 1595]--d.1599

Sir P. Sidney b.1554---------------d.1586 [A&S, 1591]        [Translations of the Psalms, 1623]

       Chris. Marlowe b. 1564--[Tamburlaine I, 1590]-d.1593 [Dr. Faustus, 1604]

       Wm. Shakespeare b.1564------------------[Sonnets, 1609]--d.1616   [First Folio, 1623]

          Mary Sidney Herbert b.1569------------------------------------d.1621 [Translations of the Psalms, 1623]

         Amelia Lanyer b. 1569-------------------[Salve Deus... 1611]------------------------d.1645

                       Ben Jonson b.1572---------------------------[Works, 1616]--------d, 1637

                       John Donne b.1572------------------------------------------d.1631 [Songs & Sonnets, 1633]

                              Lady Mary Wroth b.1587--------[Cts. of Montgomery's Urania, P&A, 1621]--d. 1651?

                                                   Rob. Herrick, b.1591--------------------------[Hesperides & NN, 1648]----------------d. 1674

                                                    George Herbert, b. 1593----------------d. 1633 [The Temple, 1633]

                                                           John Milton, b. 1608-----------------------------------[PL 1st, 1667]----[PL2nd 1674]d.1674

                                                               Andrew Marvell, b. 1621---------------------------------------------------d. 1678[Poems, 1681]