It had a reputation for publishing the very best writers of the age.
Charles Spurgeon described him as "one of the best religious writers of the age".
Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio were the leading writers of the age.
This tradition has persisted, and in writers of the early modern age he suffers one of the worst reputations among Roman emperors.
He read extensively many leading political writers of the age, notably Turgot.
Both Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare, two of the finest writers of the Elizabethan age, worked at the Rose.
In his Elizabethan World Picture Tillyard proposed the book's purpose as 'to help the ordinary reader to understand and to enjoy the great writers of the age'.
The discussions of the Kallol circle provided ideas for many of the progressive writers of the age.
This assertion of a national awareness had the firm support of many writers and historians of the age.
Donelaitis, however, stands out among other writers firstly in that he employed the classical hexameter before any European writer of the age.