William Browne (poet)

William Browne , also William Browne of Tavistock , (* around 1590 in Tavistock (Devon) , † around 1645) was an English poet of shepherd seals .

Browne studied at Oxford (Exeter College) and was from 1611 lawyer at the Inner Temple. He was married twice. In 1624 he returned to Exeter College as Tuto of Robert Dormer (later Earl of Carnarvon) and received an MA. Later he was in Wilton , where the Herbert family patronized him. He lived near Dorking, Surrey . There are no records of his funeral in either Dorking or Horsham, but there are records of a William Browne in Tavistock on March 27, 1643.

The first and second parts of his main work Britannia's Pastorals appeared in 1613 and 1616, the unfinished third part did not appear until 1852 (the manuscript was in the library of Salisbury Cathedral). The second part is dedicated to William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke . He also contributed to The Shepherd's Pipe (1614) and a mask game of his (The Inner Temple Masque) appeared in the 1772 edition of his works (3 volumes, editor Thomas Davies).

Poems by him have been included in the Oxford Book of English Verse .

literature

Michelle O'Callaghan: Browne, William (1590 / 91–1645?), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004
Gordon Goodwin (Ed.): The poems of William Browne of Tavistock, 2 volumes, London 1893, 1894, Volume 1, Archives , Volume 2, Archives (with biography)

Web links

Browne, The Inner Temple Masque

Individual evidence

↑ Not later than 1591. Birth registers from this period have not been preserved.
↑ Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, was Robert Dormer's father-in-law

personal data
SURNAME	Browne, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tavistock, William Browne of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English poet
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1590
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tavistock (Devon)
DATE OF DEATH	around 1645

[1] Not later than 1591. Birth registers from this period have not been preserved.

[2] Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, was Robert Dormer's father-in-law