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Thomas Campion : Poems selected by Charles Simic - Thomas Campion

Thomas Campion

Poems selected by Charles Simic

By: Thomas Campion, Charles Simic (Selected by)

Paperback | 1 April 2007 | Edition Number 1

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Part of the growing collection of Faber's Poet to Poet serise.

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editor, Charles Simic, offers insight into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature.



Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620) was born in London and educated at Cambridge. He studied law at Gray's Inn, and was both a poet and composer - a contemporary not only of Shakespeare, Drayton, Marlowe and Jonson, but also of Byrd, Morley, Gibbons and Dowland. In 1591 five of his songs appeared in the unauthorised version of Sidney's Astrophel and Stella. In 1595 he published a collection of Latin epigrams, Poemata, but he is best known for his lyric poems and settings. Campion wrote over one hundred lute songs, published between 1601 and 1617 in four Books of Ayres, as well as a treatise on The Art of English Poesie, and a number of masques. His work was not rediscovered until the nineteenth century; since then, whoever dreams of a poem where language begins to resemble music thinks of Campion.

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