biography
pronunciation:
[bretn]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1545–c.1626)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford and became a prolific writer of all kinds of verse, prose, and pamphlets. His best-known poem is ‘The Passionate Shepheard’ (1604). His prose Wits Trenchmour (1597) is a fishing idyll on which Izaak Walton drew for The Compleat Angler. |
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