Since his own day, Giles Fletcher the younger has been known as a member of an illustrious family of poets: his father, Giles, Elizabethan poet, courtier, and ambassador; his elder brother, Phineas, Cambridge fellow, poet, and priest; his cousin John, poet, dramatist, and collaborator with Francis Beaumont and others in many popular Jacobean plays. At Cambridge University, where he spent fifteen years (1603-1618), he was known for his important role in an active literary coterie, the "School of the Fletchers," and as the author of a successful heroic poem, Christs Victorie, and Triumph in Heaven, and Earth (1610), which influenced, among others, John Milton. Subsequently, literary historians have related his work to Milton as well as to Edmund Spenser, who influenced Fletcher's poetry. He has been described as a bridge between Spenser and Milton, as a Spenserian poet, and as an early baroque religious poet. Interest in Giles Fletcher...