Paul Scarron

Samuel Butler

John Cleveland

Francois VI, duke de La

Rochefoucauld

John Evelyn

Andrew Marvell

Jean de La Fontaine

Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

Moliere

Gabriel-Joseph de Lavergne, viscount of Guilleragues

Zhu Yizun

John Dryden

Samuel Pepys

Nicolas Boileau

Jean Racine

Mariana Alcoforado

Aphra Behn

William Wycherley

Ihara Saikaku

Thomas Shadwell

Basho

Jean de La Bruyere

John Wilmot, 2nd earl of Rochester

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

Thomas Otway

Chikamatsu Monzaemon

Daniel Defoe

John Arbuthnot

Jonathan Swift

William Congreve

Colley Cibber

Joseph Addison

Sir Richard Steele

Ahmed Nedim

Ludvig Holberg, Baron Holberg

John Gay

Allan Ramsay

Pierre Marivaux

Alexander Pope

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Samuel Richardson

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield

Voltaire

Richard Savage

James Thomson

Henry Brooke

Antonio Jose da Silva

Benjamin Franklin

Carlo Goldoni

Henry Fielding

Antiokh Dmitriyevich Kantemir

Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset

Samuel Johnson

Sarah Fielding

Laurence Sterne

Thomas Gray

Buson

Horace Walpole, 4th earl of Orford

Tobias Smollett

William Collins

Goronwy Owen

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

Giovanni Giacomo Casanova

Mercy Otis Warren

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Charlotte Lennox

Oliver Goldsmith

Lucy Terry

William Cowper

Sophie von La Roche

Christoph Martin Wieland

Ueda Akinari

Michel-Guillaume-Saint-Jean de Crevecoeur

James Macpherson

Thomas Paine

Edward Gibbon

Hester Lynch Piozzi

Marquis de Sade

James Boswell

Basilio da Gama

Johannes Ewald

Olaudah Equiano

Hannah More

Vittorio, Count Alfieri

Robert Fergusson

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Philip Freneau

Fanny Burney

Thomas Chatterton

Phillis Wheatley

George Crabbe

Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz

Royall Tyler

Galib Dede

Robert Burns

Mary Wollstonecraft

William Beckford

Andre de Chenier

Jean Paul

Ann Radcliffe

William Hill Brown

Maria Edgeworth.