Thomas Heywood, born about 1574 and buried on 16 August 1641, was one of the great working writers of the English Renaissance: a playwright, actor, poet, translator, prose controversialist, civic pageant-maker, and indefatigable observer of London life. He has never possessed the singular cultural monumentality of William Shakespeare, nor the sharply defined authorial reputation of Ben Jonson, yet this apparent eclip…
“True it is that my plays are not exposed unto the world in volumes, to bear the title of works (as others).”
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Dramatic Poets, Elizabethan Poets, Love Poets, Lute-Song Composers, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Joy, Longing, Sensuality
Alexander Montgomerie, born about 1545 and dead by August 1598, occupies a singular position in Scottish literary history: he was at once court poet, soldier, religious dissenter, satirist, lyricist, and maker of one of the most enduring allegorical poems in the Scots language. His career unfolded during the reign of James VI of Scotland, before that king inherited the English throne as James I, and it reflects the p…
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Devotional Poets, Love Poets, Renaissance Poets, Scottish Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Wonder
