George Chapman emerged from the shadowed corners of Elizabethan England as one of its most formidable literary voices—a poet, playwright, and translator whose life bridged the raw vitality of the Renaissance stage and the lofty ideals of classical antiquity. Born around 1559 in the modest market town of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, some thirty miles north of London, he would grow into a figure who embodied the era’s restl…
“Homer's poems were writ from a free fury, an absolute and full soul; Virgil's out of a courtly, laborious, and altogether imitatory spirit.”
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Classical & Ancient Poets, Dramatic Poets, Elizabethan Poets, Love Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Longing, Tenderness
Joshua Sylvester, born in 1563 and dead on 28 September 1618, occupied an unusual and important place in the literary culture of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. He was neither a university poet in the manner of many learned writers nor a wholly court-dependent figure; he was a merchant, a translator, a religious poet, a public panegyrist, a husband and father, and, for a time, a servant of the royal household. His…
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Devotional Poets, Elizabethan Poets, Hymn Writers, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Longing, Spirituality
