biography
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| lived:
| (1563–1631)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Hartshill, Warwickshire, C England, UK. His earliest work was The Harmony of the Church (1591), a metrical rendering of scriptural passages, which gave offence to the authorities, and was condemned to be destroyed. His best-known works are England's Heroical Epistles (1597), Poly-Olbion (1612–22), an ambitious description of the English countryside, and the celebrated sonnet ‘Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part’, from the sequence Idea (1619). |
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