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Wotton was born in Kent, England and was educated at Winchester and New and Queens Colleges, Oxford. Whilst studying at Oxford he met John Donne, the first and greatest of the metaphysical poets, who later became a close friend. In 1595, Wotton became secretary to the Earl of Essex, collecting forei .. .. more >>

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"You common people of the skies,
What are you when the moon doth rise?"
Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639), British poet. On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (l. 4-5). . . New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) Oxford University Press.

"So, when my mistress shall be seen
In form and beauty of her mind,
By virtue first, then choice, a queen,"
Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639), British poet. On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (l. 16-18). . . New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) Oxford University Press.

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Ammara Irshad (11/23/2007 2:51:00 AM)
'Commnets on The character of Happy Life by sir Henry Wotton'

Sir Henry Wotton has dealt with a fabulous topic.His deep and refined thoughts has produced a great deal of successful life in rhythmic mode, using rhyming scheme abab.The topic he has selected pulls the attention of readers automatically.very simple scheme is presenting a sublime theme.

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Henry Wotton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Henry Wotton was not an industrious author, and his writings are very small in bulk. Of the twenty-five poems printed in Reliquiae Wottonianae only ...
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Sir Henry Wotton -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
Britannica online encyclopedia article on Sir Henry Wotton: English poet, diplomat, and art connoisseur who was a friend of the poets John Donne and John ...
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9077522/Sir-Henry-Wotton

§6. Sir Henry Wotton. IX. The Successors of Spenser. Vol. 4. Prose ...
Sir Henry Wotton owes his literary fame to one poem of memorable beauty, to his friendship with Sir Edward Dyer and John Donne, and to the twofold fact that ...
http://www.bartleby.com/214/0906.html

The Life of Sir Henry Wotton, by Izaak Walton
Sir Henry Wotton—whose life I now intend to write—was born in the year of our Redemption 1568, in Bocton-Hall,—commonly called Bocton, or Boughton-Place, ...
http://anglicanhistory.org/walton/wotton.html

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