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WARNER, WILLIAM (1558?-16o9)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 327 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VIR-WAT
WARNER, WILLIAM (1558?-16o9) , English poet, was born in London about 1558. He was educated at Magdalen
Hall
 , Oxford, but left the university without taking a degree. He practised in London as an attorney, and gained a
great
  reputation among his contemporaries as a poet. His
chief
 
work
  is a long poem in fourteen-syllabled verse, entitled Albion's England (1586), and dedicated to
Henry
  Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon. His history of his country begins with Noah, and is brought down to Warner's own time. The chronicle is by no means continuous, and is varied by fictitious episodes, the best known of which is the idyll in the fourth book of the loves of Argentille, the daughter of the king of Deira, and the Danish prince, Curan. Here Warner's simple art shows itself at its best. His book, perhaps on account of its patriotic subject, was very popular, but it is difficult to understand how Francis Meres came to rank him with Spenser as the
chief
  heroical poets of the day, and to institute a comparison between him and Euripides. Warner died suddenly at Am well in
Hertfordshire
  on the 9th of March 1609.
His other works are Pan his Syrinx, or Pipe, Compact of Seven Reedes (1585), a collection of
prose
  tales; and a translation of the Menaechmi of Plautus (1595). Albion's England consisted originally of four " books," but the number was increased in successive issues, and a posthumous edition (1612) contains sixteen books. It was reprinted (181o) in Alexander Chalmers's English Poets.


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