English writer.

• Wrote The Compleat Angler

French fabulist.

• Wrote Fables and Tales

French playwright.

• Wrote Phaedra

French playwright.

• Wrote Tartuffe

Spanish novelist.

• Wrote Don Quixote

French playwright.

• Wrote The Cid

English naval official and writer.

• His diary, which he kept from 1660-69, provides a fascinating closeup look at English life in the 17th century

English philosopher.

• Wrote The Leviathan

English metaphysical poet and clergyman.

• Wrote Holy Sonnets

English playwright and poet.

• Wrote The Alchemist

English poet.

• Wrote Hesperides

English poet.

• Wrote The Temple

English metaphysical poet.

• Wrote the hymn ''''In the Holy Nativity''''

Welsh mystic poet.

• Wrote Silex Scintillans

English poet.

• Wrote To His Coy Mistress

English poet.

• Wrote Paradise Lost

English poet.

• Wrote Certain Elegant Poems

English prelate and man of letters.

• Wrote ''''The Exequy''''

English metaphysical poet.

• Wrote The Wish

English poet.

• Wrote ''''Of the Last Verses in the Book''''

English poet and playwright.

• Wrote ''''A Ballad upon a Wedding''''

English poet.

• Wrote ''''To Althea from Prison''''

English clergyman, playwright, and medical writer.

• Wrote The Anatomy of Melancholy

English prelate and poet.

• Wrote Characters of Virtues and Vices

English statesman and historian.

• Wrote History of the Rebellion

German novelist.

• Wrote The Adventurous Simplicissimus

Italian friar, philosopher and writer.

• Wrote the utopian Città del sole

Italian lyric poet.

• Wrote Adone

Russian archpriest who was burned at the stake for leading the Old Believers movement.

• Wrote the first Russian autobiography, Zhitiye (''''Life'''')

French man of letters.

• Founded the Académie Français

French playwright and science-fantasy writer. Subject of Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac.

• Wrote Histoire comique des états et empires de la lune

French playwright.

• Wrote Le Chevalier à la mode

Irish comic playwright.

• Wrote The Twin-Rivals

English bishop and historian.

• First English writer to write about space travel, in The Man in the Moone

Portuguese soldier, diplomat and writer.

• Wrote Historia de la Guerra de Cataluña (''''History of the Catalonian War'''')

Dutch playwright, poet and historian.

• Wrote Nederlandse historiën

Leading playwright of Spain's Golden Age.

• Wrote approximately 1,800 plays

Dutch playwright, poet and essayist.

• Wrote Lucifer

Welsh cleric, writer and translator.

• Wrote Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc (''''Visions of the Sleeping Bard'''')

Hungarian political and military leader.

• Wrote the first Hungarian epic poem, Szigeti Veszedelem

American poet.

• Wrote The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America

English poet.

• Wrote Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus

English playwright, novelist, poet and spy. The first woman in England to earn a living as a writer.

• Wrote The Rover

English poet and painter.

• As well as being a poet herself, she was the subject of one of Dryden''s odes

French author of fairy tales and popular pseudo-historical novels.

• Wrote Memoirs de la cour d''Espagne (''''Memoirs from the Spanish Court'''')

Mexican nun, scholar, playwright and lyric poet.

• Wrote ''''Hombres necios que acussés'''' (''''Men Who Accuse'''')

English travel writer.

• Published journals of her horseback tours of England

French novelist.

• Wrote La Princesse de Clèves

French novelist and leader of a literary salon.

• Wrote Clèlie, histoire romaine

French noblewoman.

• Renowned for the 1,700 letters she wrote to her daughter

French poet and dramatist who ran a famous literary salon.

• Wrote the opera Zoroastre