Thomas d'Urfey — a remark

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“My good or ill stars ordained me to be a knight errant in the fairy fields of poetry.”

Playful acceptance of a literary vocation over a more practical career · Self-description recorded in biographical accounts

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Thomas d'Urfey

c. 1653–26 February 1723

Thomas d’Urfey, born about 1653 and dead on 26 February 1723, was one of the most tireless entertainers in English literary history: a playwright, lyricist, ballad-writer, compiler, performer, political satirist, and convivial public personality whose career stretched from the high Restoration of Charles II to the…

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