Writers and Poets

From your About.com Guide, a growing collection of individuals from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Each page offers a brief description of who the writer was and what he accomplished, as well as useful websites, books, and other resources.

Luigi Alamanni was a prolific poet who was involved in political affairs in Florence and served as an ambassador for France. A concise article from the 1911 Encyclopedia.

Alger of Liege was a learned French priest, historian, and writer who lived in the first half of the 12th century. A brief article from the 1911 Encyclopedia.

Regarded by Muhammad and others as the most distinguished poet of pre-Islamic times, Amru-ul-Quais was also a soldier. Article from the 1911 Encyclopedia.

Includes links to online works and a chronology of the life and times of the first professional woman writer in English.

Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian author, whose Decameron is one of the classics of literature. An 8-page article from the 1911 Encyclopedia.

Meta-site by Kari Boyd McBride offers a biography, a bibliography of works by and about the seventeenth-century poet, and online poems. You can also join the Lanyer mailing list here.

Alain de Lille was a French theologian and mystic whose numerous poems and varied knowledge caused him to be called Doctor Universalis. A concise article from the 1911 Encyclopedia.

The entire corpus of Marlowe's works online at Tufts University includes a marvelous edition of Dr. Faustus, with links between two different versions for purposes of comparison.

A temporal-geographic summary of the groups of writers and brief but informative biographies of 18 different writers, by Rebecca LR Garber. From the ORB Online Encyclopedia.

This searchable site by Hoyt N. Duggan includes manuscript facsimiles and aims to create a multi-level, hyper-textually linked electronic archive of Langland's Piers Plowman.

Historical background and biographical info on the sixteenth-century author is accompanied by excerpts from his works and a useful glossary. In French.

This collection of net materials pertaining to the works and life of Edmund Spenser includes numerous online texts and resources, a discussion list, and of course The Faerie Queene.

Extensive list of print sources, prepared by the Robbins Library, includes general sources as well as specific primary and secondary texts concerning individual writers.