Robert Southey, Select Works of the British Poets, from Chaucer to Jonson, with Biographical Sketches (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1831)

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Chaucer, "the acknowledged father of English poetry…one of our greatest poets. His proper station is in the first class, with Spenser, and Shakespeare, and Milton; and Shakespeare alone has equalled him in variety and versatility of genius. In no other country has any writer effected so much with a half-formed language…Whoever aspires to a lasting name among the English poets must go to the writings of Chaucer and drink at the well-head" (1)

John Skelton
Stephen Hawes ("The Pastime of Pleasure")
Henry Howard
Thomas Sackville
Thomas Tusser (all known works)
George Gascoigne
Edmund Spenser (all of the Faerie Queen)
Fulke Grevile, Lord Brooke
Samuel Daniel
Michael Drayton
Sir John Davies
John Donne
Thomas Carew
Phineas Fletcher
William Drummond
Giles Fletcher
George Wither
William Browne
Sir William Davenant
William Habington (38 pages)
Richard Lovelace