WILLIAM CHAMBERLAYNE (1619-1679)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V05,
Page 820
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
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WILLIAM See also:CHAMBERLAYNE (1619-1679)
, See also:English poet, was See also:born in 1619
.
Nothing is known of his See also:history except that he practised as a physician at See also:Shaftesbury in See also:Dorsetshire, and fought on the Royalist See also:side at the second See also:battle of See also:Newbury
.
He died on the 1th of See also:July 1679
.
His See also:works are: Pharonnida (1659), a See also:verse See also:romance in five books; Love's Victory (1658), a tragi-See also:comedy, acted under another See also:title in 1678 at the See also:Theatre Royal; See also:England's See also:Jubilee (166o), a poem in See also:honour of the Restoration
.
A See also:prose version of Pharonnida, entitled Eromena, or the See also:Noble Stranger, appeared in 1683
.
See also:Southey speaks of him as " a poet to whom I am indebted for many See also:hours of delight." Pharonnida was reprinted by S
.
W
.
See also:Singer in 182o, and again in 1905 by Prof
.
G
.
See also:Saintsbury in See also:Minor Poets of the See also:Caroline See also:Period (vol. i.)
.
The poem is loose in construction, but contains some passages of See also:great beauty
.
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