John Dickenson ( 1570–1636)
was an English author, known as a romance-writer. He was a follower in the school of
John Lyly and
Robert Greene. He worked for a time in the
Low Countries, and Germany. Employed by
George Gilpin
George Gilpin (1514–1602) was an English diplomat.
Life
George Gilpin is sometimes called the Elder, to distinguish him from the eldest son of his elder brother. He was the second son of Edwin Gilpin of Kentmere, Westmoreland, by Margaret, dau ...
and
Ralph Winwood, he may have been a spy, and certainly was an agent of the government on the ground at the time of the
War of the Jülich succession of 1610. He was employed on further missions, in Poland and Scandinavia.
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Works
He was the author of:
* ''Deorum Consessus, siue Apollinis ac Mineruæ querela'', &c., 1591.
* ''Arisbas, Euphues amidst his Slumbers, or Cupids Journey to Hell'', &c., 1594, dedicated ‘To the right worshipfull Maister Edward Dyer, Esquire.’
* ''Greene in Conceipt. New raised from his graue to Write the Tragique Historie of Faire Valeria of London'', &c., 1598, with a woodcut on the title-page representing Robert Greene in his shroud, writing at a table.
* ''The Shepheardes Complaint; a passionate Eclogue, written in English Hexameters: Wherevnto are annexed other Conceits'', &c., n. d. (circ. 1594). Three short poems from this work are included in ''England's Helicon
''Englands Helicon'' is an anthology of Elizabethan pastoral poems compiled by John Flasket, and first published in 1600. There was an enlarged edition in 1614. The word Helicon refers to the Greek mountain on which, in Greek mythology, two s ...
'', 1600.
* ''Specvlum Tragicvm, Regvm, Principvm & Magnatvm superioris sæculi celebriorum ruinas exitusque calamitosos breviter complectens'', &c., Delft, 1601, reprinted in 1602, 1603, and 1605.
* ''Miscellanea ex Historiis Anglicanis concinnata'', &c., Leyden, 1606.[
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Notes
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1570s births
1636 deaths
English male poets
Clerks of the Privy Council