English essayist, novelist, dramatist, and poet of the Tudor era, strongly associated with Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of Surrey.

Wife to the eccentric William Holles Vane (1713-1789), 2nd Viscount Vane. She was known for her many marital infidelities. Her Memoirs of a Lady of Quality were included in Tobias Smollett's novel The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751).

Both an architect and playwright, John Vanbrugh is best known for designing Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. His comedies The Relapse (1696) and The Provoked Wife (1697) engendered much controversy for their sexually explicit content. The Provoked Husband; or, A Journey to London (1782) was Vanbrugh's late attempt to retract the moral laxness of his earlier works, but Vanbrugh died before finishing it. It was completed by Colley Cibber as a work with somewhat less moral severity that Vanbrugh intended.

L'Astrée appeared in installments between 1607 and 1627, and was translated into English as Astrea (1657-1658). Along with Calprènede and Scudéry, d'Urfé was known for promoting literary and cultural aesthetics of delicate refinement exalting chivalric virtues partly through long works of romance fiction that constitute the most significant examples of the Roman de longue haleine, literally the "long-winded novel."

English clergyman, critic, fellow of Oxford University, and early editor of Spenser. Upton is best remembered for his 1758 edition of Spenser's Faerie Queene, the notes of which made connections between the poem's plot and Spenser's life, as well as linked the characters in the poem with historical figures.

Latin form of Odysseus.

English playwright, translator, and educator. Udall's Ralph Roister Doister is considered to be the first known English comedy.

A farmer and writer on agricultural methods, Tusser first published A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie in 1557, then repeatedly expanded it to become Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie by 1580.

Said to be a peer of Charlemagne, Turpin appears in La Chanson de Roland.

English poet who popularized the Elizabethan practice of publishing verses to his lady. Multiple of Turberville's collections are addressed to his lady, the Countess of Warwick.