Giles Fletcher (also known as Giles Fletcher, The Younger) (born 1586?, London?; died Alderton, Suffolk, 1623) was an English poet chiefly known for his long allegorical poem Christ's Victory and Triumph (1610). London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Alderton is a village and Civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district of Suffolk, England, about six miles north of Felixstowe, 10 Suffolk (ˈsʌfək is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England.
Educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he remained in Cambridge after his ordination becoming reader in the Greek language in 1616, and in 1619 left to become rector of Alderton in Suffolk. The Royal College of St Peter in Westminster, almost always known as Westminster School, is one of Britain 's leading boys' Independent schools with Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The city of Cambridge (ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England
His principal work has the full title Christ's Victorie and Triumph, in Heaven, in Earth, over and after Death, and consists of four cantos. The first canto, Christ's Victory in Heaven, represents a dispute in heaven between justice and mercy, using the facts of Christ's life on earth; the second, Christ's Victory on Earth, deals with an allegorical account of Christ's Temptation; the third, Christ's Triumph over Death, covers the Passion; and the fourth, Christ's Triumph after Death, covering the Resurrection and Ascension, ends with an affectionate eulogy of his brother Phineas as Thyrsilis. This article describes the Christian Passion For other meanings see Passion. Within the body of Christian beliefs the resurrection of Jesus is a core event on which much of Christian doctrine and theology depend The general and most common understanding of the Christian Doctrine of Ascension holds that Jesus bodily ascended to Heaven in the presence The meter is an eight-line stanza in the style of Spenser; the first five lines rhyme ababb, and the stanza concludes with a rhyming triplet. Edmund Spenser (c 1552 &ndash 13 January, 1599) was an important English Poet and Poet Laureate best known for The Milton borrowed liberally from Christ's Victory and Triumph in Paradise Regained. John Milton ( 9 December, 1608 – 8 November, 1674) was an English Poet, Prose Polemicist and Paradise Regain'd is a Poem by the 17th century English poet John Milton, published in 1671
Fletcher was the younger son of Giles Fletcher the Elder (minister to Elizabeth I), the brother of the poet Phineas Fletcher, and cousin of the dramatist John Fletcher. Giles Fletcher the Elder (c 1548 - 1611 was an English poet and diplomat member of the English Parliament. Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650 was an English Poet, elder son of Dr Giles Fletcher, and brother of Giles the younger. John Fletcher (1579 &ndash 1625 was a Jacobean Playwright. Following William Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men, he was
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