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Richard Linche
A little-known Elizabethan poet and translator, this writer is best remembered for bringing classical myth and romance into lively English prose and verse. His surviving work offers a glimpse of the rich literary world of the late 1500s.
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Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624)
by active 1611 William Barksted, Dunstan Gale, Richard Linche, Samuel Page
About the author
Active around 1596 to 1601, Richard Linche (also spelled Lynche) was an English poet and translator from the Elizabethan period. Very little is known about his life, which makes his books and poems the main way readers encounter him today.
He is associated with Diella, a sonnet sequence and romance published in 1596, and with The Fountaine of English Fiction from 1599, a work that draws on classical mythology and earlier Italian writing. His writing shows a strong interest in storytelling, myth, and the imaginative possibilities of literature.
Because so few personal details survive, Linche remains a somewhat shadowy figure. Even so, his work has continued to attract scholarly interest as part of the wider world of Elizabethan poetry, translation, and myth-making.