William Browne
English poet
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| Intro | English poet | |||
| A.K.A. | William Browne of Tavistock | |||
| A.K.A. | William Browne of Tavistock | |||
| Places | United Kingdom Great Britain England | |||
| was | Poet | |||
| Work field | Literature | |||
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| Birth | 1590, Tavistock, United Kingdom | |||
| Death | 1645Ottery St Mary, United Kingdom (aged 55 years) | |||
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William Browne (c. 1590 – c. 1645) was an English pastoral poet, born at Tavistock, Devon, and educated at Exeter College, Oxford; subsequently he entered the Inner Temple.
His chief works were the long poem Britannia's Pastorals (1613), and a contribution to The Shepheard's Pipe (1614). Britannia's Pastorals was never finished: in his lifetime Books I & II were published successively in 1613 and 1616. The manuscript of Book III (unfinished) was not published until 1852. The poem is concerned with the loves and woes of Celia, Marina, etc.
To him is due the epitaph for the dowager Countess of Pembroke ("Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother").