Thomas Carew, born in 1595 and buried on 22 March 1640, occupies a distinctive place in English poetry as one of the most accomplished voices of the Caroline court. He is usually grouped with the Cavalier poets, a loose modern designation for writers associated with the court of Charles I, with royalist culture, and with an ideal of elegance, loyalty, sociability, erotic wit, and cultivated pleasure. Yet Carew is mor…
“Though Ben had barrelled up a great deal of knowledge, yet it seems he had not read the Ethics, which, among other Precepts of Morality, forbid Self-commendation.”
Neighbourhood:
Cavalier Poets, Love Poets, Metaphysical Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sensuality, Tenderness
Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford, was born on 12 April 1550 at Castle Hedingham in Essex and died on 24 June 1604. He belongs to the most vivid and difficult company of Elizabethan figures: a hereditary magnate with a celebrated name, a cultivated courtier, a patron of writers and players, a surviving lyric poet of real accomplishment, an erratic spendthrift, and, in later centuries, the center of a remarka…
Neighbourhood:
Elizabethan Poets, Love Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Irony, Anger, Sorrow
