Painter, William (_c._ 1540-1594) Palgrave, Sir Francis (1788-1861) Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718) Pater, Walter Horatio (1839-1894) Payn, James (1830-1898) Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866) Pecock, Reginald (_c._ 1395-1460) Peele, George (_c._ 1558-1598) Pepys, Samuel (1633-1703) Percy, Thomas (1729-1811) Phaer, Thomas (_c._ 1510-1560) Philips, Ambrose (1675-1749) Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) Praed, Winthrop Mackworth (1802-1839) Prescott, William Hickling (1796-1859) Prior, Matthew (1664-1721) Prynne, William (1600-1669) Radcliff, Ann (1764-1822) Raleigh, Sir Walter (_c._ 1552-1618) Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758) Randolph, Thomas (1605-1635) Reade, Charles (1814-1884) Reeve, Clara (1729-1807) Reynolds, John Hamilton (1796-1852) Rich, Barnaby (_c._ 1540-1620) Richard, Prior of Hexham (_fl._ 1138-1154) Richardson, Samuel (1689-1761) Ritson, Joseph (1752-1803) Robert of Gloucester (_fl. c._ 1260-1300) Robertson, William (1721-1793) Robynson, Ralph (_fl. c._ 1551) Rogers, Samuel (1763-1855) Rolle, Richard (_c._ 1290-1349) Rossetti, Christina (1830-1894) Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718) Rowley, William (_c._ 1585-1642) Ruskin, John (1819-1900) Sackville, Thomas (1536-1608) St. John, Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751) Savile, Sir Henry (1549-1622) Scott, Alexander (_c._ 1525-1584) Scott, John (1783-1821) Scott, Michael (1789-1835) Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832) Sedley, Sir Charles (_c._ 1639-1701) Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692) Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) Shenstone, William (1714-1763) Sherburne, Sir Edward (1618-1702) Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816) Shirley, James (1596-1666) Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) Simeon of Durham (_fl._ 1130) Skelton, John (_c._ 1460-1529) Smith, Horace (1779-1849) Smith, Captain John (1580-1631) Smith, Sydney (1771-1845) Smith, William (_fl._ 1596) Smollett, Tobias (1721-1771) South, Robert (1634-1716) Southerne, Thomas (1660-1746) Southey, Robert (1774-1843) Spencer, Herbert (1820-1903) Spenser, Edmund (_c._ 1552-1599) Stanley, Thomas (1625-1678) Stanyhurst, Richard (1547-1618) Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729) Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768) Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894) Still, John (1543-1608) Strachey, William (_fl._ 1609-1618) Stubbs, William (1825-1901) Suckling, Sir John (1609-1642) Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909) Symonds, John Addington (1840-1893)