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WILLIAM WARNER (1558?-16o9)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 327 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:WARNER (1558?-16o9)  , See also:English poet, was See also:born in See also:London about 1558 . He was educated at Magdalen See also:Hall, See also:Oxford, but See also:left the university without taking a degree . He practised in London as an See also:attorney, and gained a See also:great reputation among his contemporaries as a poet . His See also:chief See also:work is a See also:long poem in fourteen-syllabled See also:verse, entitled See also:Albion's See also:England (1586), and dedicated to See also:Henry See also:Carey, 1st See also:Baron See also:Hunsdon . His See also:history of his See also:country begins with See also:Noah, and is brought down to See also:Warner's own See also:time . The See also:chronicle is by no means continuous, and is varied by fictitious episodes, the best known of which is the idyll in the See also:fourth See also:book of the loves of Argentille, the daughter of the See also:king of See also:Deira, and the Danish See also:prince, Curan . Here Warner's See also:simple See also:art shows itself at its best . His book, perhaps on See also:account of its patriotic subject, was very popular, but it is difficult to understand how See also:Francis See also:Meres came to See also:rank him with See also:Spenser as the chief heroical poets of the See also:day, and to See also:institute a comparison between him and See also:Euripides . Warner died suddenly at Am well in See also:Hertfordshire on the 9th of See also:March 1609 . His other See also:works are See also:Pan his See also:Syrinx, or See also:Pipe, Compact of Seven Reedes (1585), a collection of See also:prose tales; and a See also:translation of the Menaechmi of See also:Plautus (1595) . Albion's England consisted originally of four " books," but the number was increased in successive issues, and a See also:posthumous edition (1612) contains sixteen books . It was reprinted (181o) in See also:Alexander See also:Chalmers's English Poets .

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