Per. with English. Alexander Lukyanova . The book includes poems of English poets of the era of the royal dynasties of the Tudors and Stuarts (XVI and XVII centuries). A total of 69 poets, different in talent, style, themes, directions, views, lifestyle and, finally, in their significance in the history of English literature. All of them are united by a mood: joyful or sad, frivolous or romantic, but most importantly, the desire to convey in verse their subtle worldview: nature, man, love, the universe, God. Here the reader will meet familiar names: Philip Sidney, Edmund Spencer, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Ben Johnson, Robert Herrick, John Milton, the Earl of Rochester, John Dryden, as well as poets unfamiliar or unfamiliar at all. Many works have been translated into Russian for the first time . The publication is accompanied by an article, comments and short introductory biographies of each poet .