Some Longer Elizabethan Poems

Some Longer Elizabethan Poems

Some Longer Elizabethan PoemsAs there is no need to adopt a strictly chronological order for the poems...
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Author: Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry),1857-1920
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Some Longer Elizabethan Poems

Some Longer Elizabethan Poems

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Some Longer Elizabethan Poems

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Author: Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry),1857-1920
Format: eBook
Language: English

Some Longer Elizabethan Poems

As there is no need to adopt a strictly chronological order for the poems included in the present volume, I have begun with the Orchestra and Nosce Teipsum of Sir John Davies (1569-1626), who was undoubtedly one of the most brilliant figures of the Elizabethan Age. Well-born and gently bred, educated at Winchester and at New College, Oxford, Davies was exceptionally fortunate in escaping the pecuniary cares that harassed so many Elizabethan men of letters. From the Middle Temple he was called to the bar in 1595 (at the age of twenty-six). In the previous year Orchestra had been entered in the Stationers' Register, but the poem was first published in 1596. From the dedicatory sonnet to Richard Martin we learn that it was written in fifteen days. There are, however, no signs of haste in the writing, and it may fairly be claimed that this poem in praise of dancing is a graceful monument of ingenious fancy. Lucian composed a valuable and entertaining treatise on dancing, and I suspect that gave Davies the idea of writing Orchestra. In the opening stanzas[1] we are presented with a picturesque description of [viii] ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 54194
Author: Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
Release Date: Feb 19, 2017
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Seccombe, Thomas, 1866-1923

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