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 thy mind's end be thy life's end, and let thy life's end be the glory of God.”
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Death & Mortality, Devotional Poets, Hymn Writers, Love Poets, Metaphysical Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets
Emotional landscape: Despair, Sorrow, Longing
In the twilight of the Elizabethan era and the dawn of the Jacobean age, when England’s cultural landscape shimmered with the brilliance of Shakespeare, Dowland, and Campion, there moved a quieter, yet no less gifted, musical poet: Robert Jones. Though his name today may not echo as loudly in concert halls or academic symposia as those of his more celebrated contemporaries, Jones’s contribution to the English lute so…
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Elizabethan Poets, Love Poets, Lute-Song Composers, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Longing, Irony
