Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia

Name: Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia
Author: Giles Fletcher

by Giles Fletcher, Thomas Lodge

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by David Starner, Taavi Kalju and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2006-07-16

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 Sonnets, English

About the authors

Giles Fletcher

1548–1611

A diplomat, poet, and sharp-eyed observer of Elizabethan England, this writer is best remembered for a vivid account of Russia and for the sonnet sequence Licia. His life joined public service, travel, and literature in a way that still feels strikingly modern.

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Thomas Lodge

d. 1625

A lively Elizabethan writer who moved easily between poetry, prose, and the stage, he is especially remembered for the romance Rosalynde, a source for Shakespeare’s As You Like It. His career also took an unusual turn from literature into medicine, giving his life an added layer of intrigue.

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