Sir John Roe Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 2 pages of information about the life of Sir John Roe.

Sir John Roe Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 2 pages of information about the life of Sir John Roe.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography on Sir John Roe

Seven of Sir John Roe's nine poems appear in various of the seventeenth-century collected editions of John Donne's poems: "Song" ("Deare Love, continue nice and chaste"); "An Elegie. Reflecting on his passion for his mistrisse" ("Come, Fates; I feare you not"); "Satyre" ("Men write that love and reason disagree"); "To Ben. Iohnson, 6 Ian. 1603" ("The state and mens affaires are the best plaies"); "To Ben. Iohnson, 9. Novembris, 1603" ("If great men wrong mee I will spare my selfe"); and "To Sir Tho. Roe 1603" ("Tell her if shee to hired seruantes sheewe") all appeared in the editions of Donne's Poems between 1635-1669; "Satyre" ("Sleep, next society and true friendship") appeared in the 1669 edition. Roe's "Shall I goe force an Eligie" appears anonymously in Le Prince d'Amour, by Benjamin Rudyard (1660), and his "Elegie. 'True Love findes witt'" was attributed to Donne and first printed by Alexander B. Grosart. For a discussion of...

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