Our navigation bar is loading . . .

 


 

Jesus Christ Saves Ministries

Helping San Diego, California and beyond since 1997.  




 

JCSM's Top 1000 Christian Sites - Free Traffic Sharing Service!


Do you need volunteer, community service, work, military or court hours?

Click here and add this page to your favorites!

Return to the JCSM Study Center!

Encyclopedia Britannica



BENLOWES, EDWARD (1603 ?-1676)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 740 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BEC-BER
BENLOWES, EDWARD (1603 ?-1676) , English poet, son of Andrew Benlowes of Brent
Hall
 , Essex, was born about 1603. He matriculated at St John's College,
Cambridge
 , in 162o, and on leaving the university he made a prolonged tour on the continent of Europe. He was a Roman Catholic in middle life, but became a convert to Protestantism in his later years. He dissipated his fortune by openhanded generosity to his friends and relations, and possibly by serving in the Civil War; so that he was in
great
  poverty at the time of his death, which occurred on the 18th of December 1676. The last eight years of his lifewere passed at Oxford. Many of his writings are in Latin. His most important
work
  is Theophila, or Love's Sacrifice, a Divine Poem (1652). The poem deals with mystical religion, telling how the soul, represented by Theophila, ascends by humility, zeal and contemplation, and triumphs over the sins of the senses. It is written in a curious stanza of three lines of unequal length rhyming together. Until
recent
  times justice has hardly been done to Benlowes' poetical merits and indisputable piety. Samuel Butler who satirized him in his " Character of a Small Poet," found abundant matter for ridicule in his eccentricities; and
Pope
  and Warburton noted him as a patron of bad poets.
His Theophila was reprinted by S. W.
Singer
 ; and in
Minor
  Poets of the Caroline Period, vol. i. (1905), Mr Saintsbury reprints Theophila and two other poems by Benlowes, " The Summary of Wisedome," and " A Poetic Descant upon a Private Music-Meeting."


End of Article: BENLOWES, EDWARD (1603 ?-1676)


If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
<a href="http://jcsm.org/StudyCenter/Encyclopedia/BEC_BER/BENLOWES_EDWARD_1603_1676_.html">
BENLOWES, EDWARD (1603 ?-1676)
</a>
(Previous)
BENLLIURE Y GIL, JOSE (1858- ) 		(Next)
BENNETT, CHARLES EDWIN (1858- )

 


 
 


JCSM was founded in 1997 and exists to help the community and bring people into a life-changing and productive relationship with Jesus Christ. JCSM offers over 200,000 free web pages, including its weekly inspirational emails that were sent continuously for over a decade.

Jesus Christ Saves Ministries
P.O. Box 9297
San Diego, CA  92169
1-888-887-0417 or Email

JCSM is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization. Copyright © 1997-2012.
 

 

Sponsored Advertisements

Online First Aid and CPR Certification  .  DHA Solutions  .  PB Happy Hour Specials  .  Improvising Made Easy For Guitar and Bass  .  The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected and Explained  .  Home Equity Loans  .  First Aid and CPR Online  .  San Diego Music Lessons  .  10,000 Wise Quotes and Spiritual Sayings  .  Blow Up Your Site (For Free!)  .  San Diego DUI Lawyers  .  Jason Gastrich  .  Jordan Faith Gastrich  .  Divorce Secrets Revealed  .  Post Your Ad Link Free  .  San Diego Soccer Training  .  JCSM  .  Download Sermons  .  Custom Religious Banners, Build A Sign  .  Christian Singles Dating  .  Christian T-Shirts  .  Healing Christian Prayer  .  Bumper Authority  .  Personalized Blogs and Email  .  San Diego Haircuts  .  The Do the Math Diet  .  Stop Twitter Spam  .  Christian Conservative Work at Home Network  .  The Website of the Lord