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Samuel Page
1574–1630
An English clergyman and poet from the late Elizabethan and early Stuart period, he was known in his youth for love poetry and later for sermons and devotional writing. His career joined church life, naval chaplaincy, and literary ambition in a distinctly early modern way.
1 Audiobook
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, he was an English clergyman and poet, the son of a Bedfordshire minister. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford, and went on to build a career in the Church of England.
Early readers especially noticed his youthful poetry. Francis Meres named him among English poets writing about the troubles of love, and he later became known as both a divine and a man of letters.
He also served as a naval chaplain and became vicar of Deptford. Page died in 1630, leaving behind a body of sermons, religious works, and poetry that place him at the meeting point of Renaissance literary culture and Protestant devotional writing.