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See also: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
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He was educated at
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See also:Oxford, and travelled in See also:England, See also:Scotland and See also:France
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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: 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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