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William Browne (''c.'' 1590 – ''c.'' 1645) was an English
Original poems by William Browne
published with biographical comments and Browne's family tree by Samuel Egerton Brydges at the Lee Priory Press in 1815. {{DEFAULTSORT:Browne, William 1590s births 1640s deaths Writers from Tavistock Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford Members of the Inner Temple English male poets
William Browne (''c.'' 1590 – ''c.'' 1645) was an English pastoral
A pastoral lifestyle is that of shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land according to seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture. It lends its name to a genre of literature, art, and music (pastorale) that depicts ...
poet
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, born at Tavistock, Devon
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, and educated at Exeter College, Oxford
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; subsequently he entered the Inner Temple
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.
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").Drabble, M. (1998) ''The Oxford Companion to English Literature''; 5th ed., 2nd revision. Oxford U. P.; p. 138
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* * *Original poems by William Browne
published with biographical comments and Browne's family tree by Samuel Egerton Brydges at the Lee Priory Press in 1815. {{DEFAULTSORT:Browne, William 1590s births 1640s deaths Writers from Tavistock Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford Members of the Inner Temple English male poets