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
Giles Fletcher the Younger, born about 1586 and dead by November 1623, occupies a distinctive, if sometimes underappreciated, place in English Renaissance poetry. He was a poet of the generation after Edmund Spenser and before John Milton: too late to belong wholly to the Elizabethan flowering, too early to participate in the Civil War’s political and religious literary struggles, yet deeply connected to both periods…
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Devotional Poets, Metaphysical Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Spirituality, Joy
