Sir John Davies’ reputation as a poet has shifted radically, depending on the taste of the reading public. His epigrams and occasional poems were very popular with his contemporaries; they ...

Sir John Davies is remembered as the author of two works of philosophical poetry: Orchestra, or a Poeme of Dauncing (1596) and Nosce Teipsum. This Oracle Expounded in Two Elegies …

In Sir John Davies and the Conquest of Ireland: A Study in Legal Imperialism, pp. 161-75. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Sir John Davies’ minor poetry falls into three general classes: dramatic entertainments written for court ceremonies or celebrations, occasional poems which he sent to prominent people, and ...

John Davies, a contemporary of Shakespeare and Donne, straddled both Elizabethan and Jacobean eras with remarkable dexterity. Born in 1569, he contributed significantly to the …

John Davies was born in the full noon of the English Renaissance, in 1569, when the humanities had fully penetrated Oxford and Cambridge and wide reading was part of the education of a …

The Orchestra of Sir John Davies and the Image of the Dance; The Rhetorical Structure of Sir John Davies's Nosce Teipsum; The Social Applications of Poetry; Rule and Order Strange: A …

Its author, Sir John Davies, was at the time a student and lawyer of the Middle Temple, and his poem was later summed up by his fellow student, John Hoskins, in his book Directions for …

2023年12月1日 · The Silver Age poets were a group of 16th-century English writers, including Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Philip Sidney, Mary Herbert, Michael …

Donne is a metaphysical poet, following the style of John Davies in his poem "A Preface to Metaphysical Poetry". 6 educator answers. John Donne. What are John Donne's views on love …