Nicholas Breton
Nicholas Breton (also Britton or Brittaine ) (* 1545 ?; † 1626?) Was an English poet of the Elizabethan era.
Life
His life data are largely unsecured. Most of the information can be derived from his works (lit.Kuskop). Breton was a witty and prolific English poet and writer of novels, religious and pastoral poems, political treatises, satires, dialogues, short stories, anecdotes, collections of letters, essays and aphorisms, and the like. a. He must have spent most of his life in London and held in high regard by his contemporaries. In the first half of his life he frequented aristocratic circles (especially at the court of Mary Sidney [Herbert], Countess of Pembroke), from around 1600 a complete change in life must have taken place with the departure from court.
Works
Of his 22 prose writings are Wit's Trenchmour (1597), The Wil of Wit (1599), A Poste with a Packet of Mad Letters (1602-06), Strange News out of Divers Countries (1622), Mary Magdalen's Lamentations (1604 ) and The Passion of a Discontented Mind (1601).
Of his 20 verse epics and poems are The Pilgrimage to Paradise (1592), Melancholike Humours (1600), The Passionate Shepheard (1604), An Invective against Treason; I would and I would not (1614), Pasquil's Fooles cappe (1600), Pasquil's Mistresse (1600), Pasquil's Passe and Passeth Not (1600).
literature
- FTK Kuskop: Nicholas Breton and his prose writings . Soul and Co., Leipzig 1902.
- EM Tappan: The Poetry of Nicholas Breton. PMLA, 1898
Web links
- Dissertation, T. Kuskop, Nicholas Breton and his prose writings. (1902)
- Works (Vol.1) Poems and verses
- Works (Vol.2) Prose works
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Breton, Nicholas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Britton, Nicholas; Brittaine, Nicholas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | uncertain: 1545 |
| DATE OF DEATH | uncertain: 1626 |