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ALEXANDER BROME (162o-1666)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 631 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALEXANDER See also:BROME (162o-1666)  , See also:English poet, was by profession an See also:attorney, and was the author of many drinking songs and of satirical verses in favour of the Royalists and against the Rump . He published in 1661 Songs and other Poems, containing songs on various subjects, followed by a See also:series of See also:political songs; See also:ballads, epistles, elegies and epitaphs; epigrams and See also:translations . Izaak See also:Walton wrote an See also:introductory See also:eclogue for this See also:volume in praise of the writer, and his gaiety and wit won for him the See also:title of the " English See also:Anacreon " in See also:Edward See also:Phillips's Theatrum Poetarum . See also:Brome published in 1666 a See also:translation of See also:Horace by himself and others, and was the author of a See also:comedy entitled The Cunning Lovers (1654) . He also edited two volumes of See also:Richard Brome's plays .

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