biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1557–92)
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| biography:
| Lyric poet, born in London, UK. He was educated at Oxford, then studied law in London. Coming to Marlowe's help in a street fight, he killed a man in 1589. He excelled in English ‘sonnets’ in Hecatompathia or Passionate Century of Love (1582) and The Tears of Fancie (1593), and his sonnets were very probably studied by Shakespeare. He also translated classics into Latin and English, including Sophocles and Tasso, and The First Sett of Italian Madrigalls Englished (1590). |
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