William Basse’s <em>Polyhymnia</em> and the Poetry of Service
The career of the little-known seventeenth-century poet William Basse (c. 1583-1653?) combined two distinctive elements. He served, in the first instance, as a ‘retainer’ to the Wenman family of Thame Park in Oxfordshire for a period of more than forty years. He was also, however, a published poet w...
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Firenze University Press
2015-03-01
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Series: | Journal of Early Modern Studies |
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Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-jems/article/view/7035 |