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Samuel Page
1574–1630
A 17th-century English clergyman and poet, he wrote devotional verse and sermons shaped by a life in the Church and at sea. His work offers a glimpse of the religious and literary world of early Stuart England.
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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
Born in 1574, Samuel Page was an English clergyman and poet from a Bedfordshire clergy family. He studied at Oxford, where he earned a series of degrees and built the scholarly background that would support both his preaching and his writing.
Page served as a naval chaplain before later becoming vicar at Deptford. That mix of academic training, church service, and practical experience gave his writing a grounded, lived-in quality.
He is remembered for devotional poetry and sermons, and for belonging to a period when religious writing and literary ambition often went hand in hand. He died in 1630, leaving behind work that still interests readers of early modern English literature and theology.