Thomas Stanley, born on 3 September 1625 and dead on 12 April 1678, was one of the most cultivated English writers of the seventeenth century: a lyric poet of the Cavalier age, a translator of Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and Spanish literature, an editor of Aeschylus, a patron and friend of writers, and the author of the first substantial history of philosophy written in English. His name has never carried the imm…
“Although some Grecians have challenged to their Nation the Original of Philosophy, yet the more learned of them have acknowledged it derived from the East.”
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Cavalier Poets, Love Poets, Metaphysical Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Despair
Phineas Fletcher, baptized on 8 April 1582 and buried in December 1650, was one of the most ambitious English poets of the generation after Edmund Spenser. He lived through the last decades of Elizabeth I, the reigns of James I and Charles I, and the early upheavals of the Civil War, yet his own life was comparatively quiet: he was a scholar, priest, husband, father, country rector, and author. His reputation has nev…
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Devotional Poets, Metaphysical Poets, Nature Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Despair, Longing
