In the golden twilight of the English Renaissance, when the echoes of Shakespeare's verse still rang through London's theaters and the madrigal reached its most exquisite flowering, Thomas Weelkes emerged as one of the most distinctive and emotionally powerful composers of his generation. Born around 1576 and dying in 1623, Weelkes lived through one of the most extraordinary periods in English cultural history, creat…
“Many of us musicians think it as much praise to be somewhat more than musicians, as it is for gold to be somewhat more than gold.”
Neighbourhood:
Elizabethan Poets, Lute-Song Composers
Emotional landscape: Longing, Irony, Sensuality
Thomas Randolph was born on 15 June 1605 at Newnham, in the parish of Newnham-cum-Badby near Daventry, Northamptonshire, and was buried on 17 March 1635. His life lasted not quite thirty years, yet his achievement was unusually various: he was a lyric poet, satirist, writer of university entertainments, comic dramatist, pastoral dramatist, and one of the most gifted younger members of the literary circle gathered aro…
Neighbourhood:
Cavalier Poets, Dramatic Poets, Light Verse Poets, Love Poets, Metaphysical Poets, Nature Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Irony, Joy, Wonder
