Richard Barnfield
The Affectionate Shepherd (poem) 1594

William Browne
Britannia's Pastorals (poem) 1613-16
The Shepheards Pipe (poem) 1614

Michael Drayton
Idea, the Shepherd's Garland (poem) 1593

Ben Jonson
The Sad Shepherd (play) 1640

Christopher Marlowe
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” (poem) 1599

Andrew Marvell
“Ametas and Thestylis Making Hay-Ropes” (poem) 1681
“Bermudas” (poem) 1681
“Damon the Mower” (poem) 1681
“The Garden” (poem) 1681
“The Mower against Gardens” (poem) 1681

John Milton
“Comus” (poem) 1634
“L'Allegro” (poem) 1634
“Lycidas” (poem) 1637
Paradise Lost (epic poem) 1667

Walter Raleigh
“The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd” (poem) 1600

William Shakespeare
As You Like It (play) 1598
The Winter's Tale (play) 1609
The Tempest (play) 1611

Philip Sidney
Lady of May (masque) 1578
Arcadia (epic poem) 1590
Astrophel and Stella (sonnet sequence) 1591

Edmund Spenser
The Shepheardes Calender (eclogues) 1579
The Faerie Queene (epic poem) 1595