Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650) was an English poet, elder son of Dr Giles Fletcher, and brother of Giles the younger. A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" Giles Fletcher the Elder (c 1548 - 1611 was an English poet and diplomat member of the English Parliament. Giles Fletcher (also known as Giles Fletcher The Younger) (born 1586? London ? died Alderton, Suffolk, 1623 was an English poet chiefly known He was born at Cranbrook, Kent, and was baptized on 8 April 1582. Cranbrook is an old market town in the Tunbridge Wells borough of Kent in South East England. Events 217 - Roman Emperor Caracalla is Assassinated (and succeeded by his Praetorian
He was admitted a scholar of Eton, and in 1600 entered King's College, Cambridge. Eton College, or just Eton, is a world-famous British Independent school for boys founded in 1440 by King Henry VI. King's College Cambridge is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. He graduated B. A. in 1604, and M. A. in 1608, and was one of the contributors to Sorrow's Joy (1603). His pastoral drama, Sicelides, or Piscatory was written (1614) for performance before James I, but only produced after the king's departure at Kings College. James VI and I (19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625 was King of Scotland as James VI, and King of England and King of Ireland as James
He had been ordained priest and before 1611 became a fellow of his college, but he left Cambridge before 1616, apparently because certain emoluments were refused him. He became chaplain to Sir Henry Willoughby, who presented him in 1621 to the rectory of Hilgay, Norfolk, where he married and spent the rest of his life. Hilgay lies four miles outside of Downham Market and Bexwell in the English county of Norfolk. Norfolk (ˈnɔrfək is a low-lying county in East Anglia, England, United Kingdom.
In 1627 he published Locustae, vel Pietas Jesuitica (The Locusts or Apollyonists), two parallel poems in Latin and English furiously attacking the Jesuits. The Society of Jesus ( Latin: Societas Iesu, SJ and SI or SJ, SI) is a Catholic religious order Grosart saw in this work one of the sources of Milton's conception of Satan. John Milton ( 9 December, 1608 – 8 November, 1674) was an English Poet, Prose Polemicist and Satan, ( Standard Hebrew Satan'el, English accuser) is a term that originates from the Abrahamic faiths, being traditionally Next year appeared an erotic poem, Brittain's Ida, with Edmund Spenser's name on the title-page. Edmund Spenser (c 1552 &ndash 13 January, 1599) was an important English Poet and Poet Laureate best known for The It is certainly not by Spenser, and is printed by Grosart with the works of Phineas Fletcher. Sicelides was printed in 1631.
In 1632 appeared two theological prose treatises, The Way to Blessedness and Joy in Tribulation, and in 1633 his magnum opus, The Purple Island. The book was dedicated to his friend Edward Benlowes, and included his Piscatorie Eclogues and other Poetical Miscellanies. He died in 1650, his will being proved by his widow on the 13th of December of that year.
The Purple Island, or the Isle of Man, is a poem in twelve cantos describing in cumbrous allegory the physiological structure of the human body and the mind of man. The intellectual qualities are personified, while the veins are rivers, the bones the mountains of the island, the whole analogy being worked out with great ingenuity. The manner of Spenser is preserved throughout, but Fletcher never lost sight of his moral aim to lose himself in digressions like those of the Faerie Queene. The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser, published first in three books in 1590 and later in six books in 1596 What he gains in unity of design, however, he more than loses in human interest and action. The chief charm of the poem lies in its descriptions of rural scenery. The Piscatory Eclogues are pastorals, the characters of which are represented as fisher boys on the banks of the Cam, and are interesting for the light they cast -on the biography of the poet himself (Thyrsil) and his father (Thelgon). Pastoral, as an adjective refers to the lifestyle of Shepherds and Pastoralists moving livestock around larger areas of land according to seasons and availability A cam is a projecting part of a rotating Wheel or shaft that strikes a Lever at one or more points on its circular path
The poetry of Phineas Fletcher has not the sublimity sometimes reached by his brother Giles. The mannerisms are more pronounced and the conceits more farfetched, but the verse is fluent, and lacks neither color nor music.
A complete edition of his works (4 vols. ) was privately printed by A. B. Grosart (Fuller Worthies Library, 1869).
References
- Langdale, Abram Barnett. Phineas Fletcher: Man of Letters, Science, and Divinity. New York, Columbia University Press, 1937.
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition article "Phineas Fletcher", a publication now in the public domain. The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911 is a 29-volume reference work that marked the beginning of the Encyclopædia Britannica The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone
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