First Wave
Of Modernity
(1500 - 1780)
Timothy H. Wilson
(1500 - 1780)
Timothy H. Wilson
The First Wave of Modernity covers what is often referred to as Renaissance or Early Modern literature and philosophy (Shakespeare, Bacon) as well as 18th century literature and philosophy, often referred to as the Age of Reason or Enlightenment (Pope, Voltaire).
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)
Sir Thomas More (1478 - 1535)
Francois Rabelais (1483-1553)
Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 92)
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Edmund Spenser (1552 - 99)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 86)
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 93)
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
John Donne (1572 - 1631)
Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)
John Locke (1632 - 1704)
Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731)
Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)