“You have given such a maintenance to that repute which your former deportment had begotten that it will need no other livelihood than a chronicle.”
About William Browne, of Tavistock
c. 1588–c. 1650
William Browne of Tavistock, born about 1588 and traditionally thought to have died about 1650, is one of the most attractive and elusive figures in early seventeenth-century English poetry. He was not a major public presence on the scale of Ben Jonson, John Donne, or George Wither, nor did he leave behind the…