Henry Petowe

English Elizabethan poet
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IntroEnglish Elizabethan poet
PlacesUnited Kingdom Great Britain England
isPoet
Work fieldLiterature
Gender
Male
Birth1575
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Biography

Henry Petowe (1575/6–1636?) was a minor Elizabethan poet, best known today for "The Second Part of Hero and Leander, Containing their Further Fortunes," his sequel to Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander.

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