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

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