George Gascoigne, born about 1539 and dead on 7 October 1577, was one of the most adventurous and consequential writers of early Elizabethan England. Poet, translator, dramatist, critic, court entertainer, soldier, traveler, and sometime political aspirant, he lived with the instability and appetite that his writing so often dramatizes. His career was brief, troubled by debt, family conflict, legal suspicion, militar…
“the more monosyllables that you use, the truer Englishman you shall seem, and the less you shall smell of the inkhorn”
Neighbourhood:
Elizabethan Poets, Love Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Peace, Joy
Thomas Dekker, born about 1572 and buried on 25 August 1641, was one of the most prolific, humane, and distinctly urban writers of the English Renaissance. A playwright, pamphleteer, poet, translator, maker of civic pageants, and tireless collaborator, he wrote from within the crowded and dangerous life of London rather than above it. His works teem with apprentices, shoemakers, tavern-haunters, debtors, prostitutes,…
“Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.”
Neighbourhood:
Death & Mortality, Devotional Poets, Dramatic Poets, Elizabethan Poets, Light Verse Poets, Love Poets, Renaissance Poets, Social Justice Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Despair, Longing
