Thomas Nashe, baptized on 26 November 1567 and probably born shortly before that date in Lowestoft, Suffolk, was one of the most brilliant, abrasive, inventive, and precarious figures of the English Renaissance. He died sometime after 1599 and is conventionally assigned a death date of about 1601, though the circumstances and exact date remain unknown. In a life that appears to have lasted little more than three deca…
“The Sun shineth as well on the good as the bad: God from on high beholdeth all the workers of iniquity, as well as the upright of heart.”
Neighbourhood:
Elizabethan Poets, Light Verse Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Despair, Sorrow, Fear
George Wither was born on 11 June 1588 at Bentworth, near Alton in Hampshire, and died on 2 May 1667 in London. His long life stretched across one of the most violently transformative periods in English history: the last years of Elizabeth I, the reigns of James I and Charles I, the Civil Wars, the execution of a king, the Commonwealth and Protectorate, and the Restoration of Charles II. Few English poets lived so fu…
Neighbourhood:
Cavalier Poets, Devotional Poets, Hymn Writers, Love Poets, Metaphysical Poets, Nature Poets, Political Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Longing, Despair
