Samuel Rowlands

Samuel Rowlands was an English poet and pamphleteer active in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. He is best known for satirical and popular verse that drew on everyday London life, often mixing humor with social criticism.

His books include titles such as The Letting of Humours Blood in the Head-Vaine, Humors Looking Glasse, and Martin Mark-all, Beadle of Bridewell. Rowlands wrote in a lively, accessible style that helped capture the sounds, habits, and anxieties of his time.

Although relatively little is firmly known about his personal life, his writing has remained valuable to readers and scholars for the window it opens onto urban culture in early modern England.