English Literature, 1500 to 1799: Biographies

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Henry King

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Henry King 1592–1669, English poet. He became bishop of Chichester in 1642. Elegies constitute nearly half his work, his most notable being "The Exequy," written on the death of his young wife. However, he is chiefly remembered for his love poem "Tell me no more how fair she is."

Bibliography: See his poems, ed. by M. Crum (1965); R. Berman, Henry King & the Seventeenth Century (1964); bibliography by G. Keynes (1977).

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King, Henry (1592–1669), became bishop of Chichester and was the friend of Donne and I. Walton. He published poems sacred and profane, the best-known of which is ‘An Exequy to his Matchless never to be forgotten Friend’, written for his wife.

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