English Literature, 1500 to 1799: Biographies

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Warner, William

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Warner, William (c.1558–1609), published Pan his Syrinx, seven prose tales (1584). His chief work was Albions England, a metrical British history, with mythical and fictitious episodes, extending in the first edition (1586) from Noah to the Norman Conquest. It was brought up to Elizabeth's reign in 1592; and a continuation, reaching James I, was published posthumously (1612). Meres, in his Palladis Tamía (1598), claimed to have heard Warner called ‘our English Homer’, and Drayton praised him in his elegy To Henery Reynolds.

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William Warner

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William Warner 1558?–1609, English poet. A lawyer educated at Oxford, he wrote Pan his Syrinx (1584), translated Plautus's Menaechmi (1595), and gained a reputation with Albion's England, a long history in verse first published in 1586 and completed in a 16-book version published in 1612.

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