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STEPHEN HAWES (fl. 1502-1521)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 94 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STEPHEN See also:HAWES (fl. 1502-1521)  , See also:English poet, was probably a native of See also:Suffolk, and, if his own statement of his See also:age may be trusted, was See also:born about 1474 . He was educated at . See also:Oxford, and travelled in See also:England, See also:Scotland and See also:France . On his return his various accomplishments, especially his " most excellent vein " in See also:poetry, procured him a See also:place at See also:court, He was See also:groom of the chamber to See also:Henry VII. as See also:early as 1502 . He could repeat by See also:heart the See also:works of most of the English poets, especially the poems of See also:John See also:Lydgate, whom he called his See also:master . He was still living in 1521, when it is stated in Henry VIIL's See also:household accounts that 6, 13s . 4d. was paid " to Mr See also:Hawes for his See also:play," and he died before 1J30, when See also:Thomas See also:Field, in his " Conversation between a See also:Lover and a See also:Jay," wrote " Yong Steven Hawse, whose smile See also:God See also:pardon, Treated of love so clerkly and well." His See also:capital See also:work is The Passelyme of See also:Pleasure, or the See also:History of Graunde Amour and la See also:Bel Pucel, conteining the knowledge of the Seven Sciences and the Course of See also:Man's See also:Life in this Worlde, printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1509, but finished three years earlier . It was also printed with slightly varying titles by the same printer in 1517, by J . See also:Wayland in 1554, by See also:Richard Tottel and by John Waley in 1555 . Tottel's edition was edited by T . See also:Wright and reprinted by the See also:Percy Society in 1845 . The poem is a See also:long See also:allegory in seven-lined stanzas of man's life in this See also:world .

It is divided into sections after the manner of the See also:

Monte See also:Arthur and borrows the machinery of See also:romance . Its See also:main See also:motive is the See also:education of the See also:knight, Graunde Amour, based, according to Mr W . J . See also:Courthope (Hist. of Eng . Poetry, vol. i . 382), on the See also:Marriage of See also:Mercury and See also:Philology, by Martianus See also:Capella, and the details of the description prove Hawes to have been well acquainted with See also:medieval systems of See also:philosophy . At the See also:suggestion of Fame, and accompanied by her two greyhounds, See also:Grace and Governance, Graunde Amour starts out in quest of La Bel Pucel . He first visits the See also:Tower of See also:Doctrine or See also:Science where he acquaints himself with the arts of See also:grammar, See also:logic, See also:rhetoric and See also:arithmetic . After a long disputation with the See also:lady in the Tower of See also:Music he returns to his studies, and after sojourns at the Tower of See also:Geometry, the Tower of Doctrine, the See also:Castle of See also:Chivalry, &c., he arrives at the Castle of La Bel Pucel, where he is met by See also:Peace, See also:Mercy, See also:Justice, See also:Reason and Memory . His happy marriage does not end the See also:story, which goes on to tell of the oncoming of Age, with the concomitant evils of Avarice and Cunning . The admonition of See also:Death brings Contrition and See also:Conscience, and it is only when Remembraunce has delivered an See also:epitaph chiefly dealing with the Seven Deadly Sins, and Fame has enrolled Graunde Amour's name with the knights of antiquity, that we are allowed to See also:part with the See also:hero . This long imaginative poem was widely read and esteemed, and certainly exercised an See also:influence on the See also:genius of See also:Spenser .

The remaining works of Hawes are all of them See also:

bibliographical rarities . The Conversyon of Swerers (1509) and A Joyful/ Medytacon to all Englonde, a See also:coronation poem (1509), was edited by See also:David See also:Laing for the See also:Abbotsford See also:Club (See also:Edinburgh, 1865) . A Compendyous Story . . . called the Example of Vertu (pr . 1512) and the Comfort of Lovers (not dated) See also:complete the See also:list of his extant work . See also G . See also:Saintsbury, The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Edin. and Lond., 1897) ; the same writer's Hisi. of English See also:Prosody (vol. i . 1906); and an See also:article by W . Murison in the See also:Cam-See also:bridge History of English Literature (vol. ii . 1908) .

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