Pick two poets who seem to have nothing to do with each other — a Gothic American and a pastoral Englishman, say — and see where the catalogue actually joins them: overlapping years, shared ground, distinctive themes, and the poems that secretly rhyme.
Francis Quarles, baptized on 8 May 1592 and buried on 8 September 1644, was among the most widely read English devotional poets of the seventeenth century. In his own lifetime and for many generations afterward, his name was familiar in households that might never have owned the works of John Donne, George Herbert, or John Milton. His poetry was not designed chiefly for fashionable literary circles. It sought instead…
“Let the fear of a danger be a greater danger to thee than the danger itself.”
Neighbourhood:
Death & Mortality, Devotional Poets, Hymn Writers, Love Poets, Metaphysical Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets
In the rich tapestry of Elizabethan literature, certain figures stand as crucial bridges between the medieval past and the Renaissance flowering that would produce Shakespeare, Spenser, and Marlowe. Among these transitional figures, Barnabe Googe occupies a unique and often underappreciated position as one of the earliest English poets to fully embrace Continental Renaissance forms while maintaining a distinctly Engl…
Neighbourhood:
Devotional Poets, Elizabethan Poets, Love Poets, Renaissance Poets
They overlapped for 3 years (1592–1594).
When Francis Quarles was born, Barnabe Googe was about 52.
Francis Quarles was about 2 when Barnabe Googe died.
