Edward Calver (
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1649) was an English poet, said to be a lay
Puritan. Little is recorded of his life.
Works
Calver's works include:
* ''Passion and Discretion, in Youth and Age'', London, 1641. The work is divided into two books, the second of which has a prose epistle to his friend and kinsman John Strut. The work contains moral reflections on the passions, and was illustrated by
Peter Stent
Peter Stent (c. 1613–1665) was a seventeenth-century London printseller, who from the early 1640s until his death ran one of the biggest printmaking businesses of the day.
Stent originally was an engraver himself. Edward Calver wrote verses to ...
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* ''Divine Passions, piously and pathetically expressed, in three books'', London, 1643.
* ''Englands Sad Posture; or, A true Description of the present Estate of poore distressed England, and of the lamentable Condition of these distracted times, since the beginning of this Civill and unnaturall Warr. Presented to the Right Honourable, Pious, and Valiant Edward Earle of Manchester'', London, 1644, With portraits of the Earl of Manchester, engraved by
Thomas Cross, and of the author, engraved by Hollar.
* ''Calvers Royal Vision; with his most humble addresses to his majesties royall person'', in verse, London, 1648.
* ''Englands Fortresse, exemplified in the most renowned and victorious, his Excellency the Lord Fairfax. Humbly presented unto his Excellency by E. C., a lover of peace'', a eulogy in verse, London, 1648.
* ''Zion's thankfull Echoes from the Clifts of Ireland. Of the little Church of Christ in Ireland, warbling out the humble and gratefull addresses to her elder sister in England. And in particular to the Parliament, to his Excellency, and to his Army, or that part assigned to her assistance, now in her low, yet hopeful condition'', London, 1649.
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17th-century English Puritans
17th-century English writers
17th-century English male writers
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
English male poets
People from Mid Suffolk District