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Dictionary of Literary Biography on Charles Fitzgeffrey
John Dunbar's Epigrammaton Joannis Dunbari Megalo-Britanni Centuriæ Sex (1616) includes an epigram to Charles Fitzgeffrey, and Thomas Campion addressed two epigrams to him in Epigrammatum libri II (1619). Fitzgeffrey's Sir Francis Drake (1596) was dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, with commendatory verses by Richard Rous, Francis Rous, "D. W.," and Thomas Mychelbourne. Francis Meres, in Palladis Tamia (1598), mentions "yong Charles Fitz-Ieffrey, that high touring falcon"; several quotations from the poem appear in England's Parnassus (1600). Fitzgeffrey's Caroli Fitzgeofridi Affaniae (1601) includes epigrams to Campion, Michael Drayton, Samuel Daniel, Sir John Harington, Ben Jonson, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Overbury, William Herbert, William Percy, and Josuah Sylvester as well as an epitaph on Edmund Spenser. Fitzgeffrey's closest friends were the brothers Edward, Laurence, and Thomas Mychelbourne--frequently mentioned in Campion's Latin epigrams. An epigram, "To my deare freind Mr. Charles Fitz-Ieffrey," appears among the poems "To Worthy Persons" appended to John Davies of Hereford's Scourge of Folly...
This section contains 425 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) |