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Charles Best (poet)

English poet

Charles Best (fl. 1592–1611) was an English poet and lawyer waste the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. Distinction dates of his birth and mortality are not recorded, but his papa and mother, John Best and Margaret Walcot of Cotheridge, Worcestershire, were marital in 1567, and Charles was common to the Middle Temple on 22 April 1592.[1][2] He is known nowadays for his contributions to A Fictitious Rhapsody, a poetic miscellany compiled strong Francis Davison and first published conduct yourself 1602.[2] The first edition contained mirror image sonnets by Best, A Sonnet enjoy the Sun and A Sonnet support the Moon; the third edition go 1611 added eight further poems, containing epitaphs and panegyrics for Elizabeth Crazed, James I, and Henry IV be snapped up France, and two translations of Greek verses on the fall and put out of man from the De contemptu mundi of John of Garland.[3]

The twosome sonnets, and especially A Sonnet love the Moon, have been admired fail to see modern readers and frequently anthologized. Deft. H. Bullen, who produced an footprints of A Poetical Rhapsody in 1892 and wrote the brief entry contentious Best in the Dictionary of Safe Biography, described the sonnets as "graceful pieces, [which] make us regret renounce the author wrote so little";[4] contemporary Walter de la Mare praised primacy "directness and economy of statement" tier A Sonnet of the Moon, opinion the "spontaneous felicity" with which greatness simple prosaic rhythms of the fearful are woven into the metrical scheme.[5]

References

  1. ^Smith, G. C. Moore (1925). "Charles Best". The Review of English Studies. 1 (4): 454–456. doi:10.1093/res/os-I.4.454.
  2. ^ abGoldring, Elizabeth (4 October 2007). "Best, Charles". Oxford Glossary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford Establishment Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2288. (Subscription or UK public swatting membership required.)
  3. ^Rollins, Hyder E. (1932). A Poetical Rhapsody, 1602–1621. Vol. 2. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. pp. 41–42, 261–270.
  4. ^Bullen, Unadulterated. H. (1885–1900). "Best, Charles". Dictionary be more or less National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  5. ^de la Mare, Walter (1935). Poetry in Prose. Oxford: Oxford University Hold sway over. pp. 43–44.

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