Renaissance+Authors


 * Major Accomplishments of Other Renaissance Writers**


 *  [|John Donne]



Background Information: -   Born around 1572 in London, England.   March 31, 1631 -   <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: #4dcef5; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">Jacobean poet, preacher, and major representative of the metaphysical poets of this period. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: #4dcef5; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">-   <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: #4dcef5; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">Married Elizabeth Heywood, daughter of John Heywood, the playwright. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: #4dcef5; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">-   <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: #4dcef5; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">Born into a Roman Catholic family and later converted to the Anglican Church. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: #4dcef5; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">-  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: #4dcef5; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">Was a student at Hertford College, Oxford at age 11. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: #4dcef5; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">-   <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: #4dcef5; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">After 3 years at Oxford, he was accepted to <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">[|University of Cambridge] <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">. <span style="COLOR: #4dcef5; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">- Lived in poverty for several years and relied on wealthy friends. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: #4dcef5; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">Achievements: <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: #4dcef5; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">-   <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: #4dcef5; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">Works are notable for their realistic and sensual style, vibrant language, and inventiveness of metaphor. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: #4dcef5; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">-   <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: #4dcef5; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">Wrote satires about typical Elizabethan topics like corruption in the legal system, mediocre poets, and pompous courtiers but his works stood out because of his intellectual sophistication and striking imagery. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: #4dcef5; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">-   <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: #4dcef5; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">His third satire deals with problems in religion. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: #4dcef5; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">-   <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: #4dcef5; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">Also wrote much erotic poetry. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"><span style="COLOR: #4dcef5; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">- John Donne is commemorated as a priest in the calendar of the Church of England and in the Calendar of Saints of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on March 31. - Known as the "prince of poets" to his contemporaries. || **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">[|Edmund Spenser] **



<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #26f7ae">Background Information: - Born around 1552. Died January 13, 1599. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #26f7ae">- Educated in London at the Merchant Taylor’s School. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #26f7ae">- Enrolled at <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">[|Pembroke College, Cambridge.] <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #26f7ae">- During the Nine Years War, he was driven from his castle at Kilcolman by Irish Rebels <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #26f7ae">-Died age 46, with distressed conditions. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #26f7ae">- Poets carried his coffin and threw many pens and pieces of poetry into the <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">[|grave] <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #26f7ae">. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #26f7ae"> - Greatly admired Geoffrey Chaucer <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #26f7ae">Accomplishments: <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #26f7ae">- An important English Poet and Poet Laureate. - First volumes of poetry called //The Shepherd's Calendar// <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #26f7ae">- Most famous work: <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">[|Faerie Queene] <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #26f7ae"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"> - Had a distinctive writing form called The Spenserian Sonnet. The main meter is iambic pentameter. - Tried to bring women from the transcendental ideal to women in everyday life. || Christopher Marlowe was born in Canterbury, England in 1564. He was the son of a shoemaker. Marlowe attended school at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge. While in school he studied philosophy, history, and theology. Marlowe disappeared from Corpus Christi and when he returned he was originally denied his degree. In 1587 he left Cambridge for London, England to become a playwright. //Tamburlaine the Great// was his first major work and it was performed for the first time in 1587. His career only lasted 6 years and during his career he composed several dramas such as //The Massacre at Paris//, and poems such as //Hero//. Marlowe was an angry person and he had many enemies. Marlowe died in 1593 and his death is considered a great mystery. There are several variations of ways he died, the most popular version is that he died from being stabbed in the eye during a bar fight. || || <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; COLOR: rgb(15,18,219)"> **//John Milton//** John Milton was born on December 9th, 1608. He was born in London, England to his parents John and Sara. His father was a legal secretary and he also wrote church music. Milton enjoyed music and learned classical languages as a child. He attended St. Paul’s School at age 12. He went on to attend college at Christ’s College in Cambridge. <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> He was eventually suspended because he got in a fight with his tutor. After his suspension he returned to London where he watched plays and began writing poetry. He eventually returned to Cambridge to finish school. He composed //On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity// while at Cambridge in 1629. He graduated from college in 1632 and returned to London. He wrote many poems and some of his works were performed. His most famous poem, Paradise Lost, was composed in 1667. <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"> When The Civil War happened in England he wrote several works on political beliefs such as //The Reason for Church Government//. In 1642 Milton wed Mary Powell but she eventually left him. However, the couple did have two daughters together. In 1652 Milton went blind but he continued to write. He remarried in 1663 to a woman named Elizabeth whom his daughters did not like. Milton died in November of 1674. Upon his death a monument was dedicated to him in Westminster Abbey.
 * **<span style="COLOR: rgb(241,50,227)">//Christopher Marlowe// **