edward De Vere

Date Submitted: 07/21/2003 14:28:57
Category: / History
Length: 4 pages (1210 words)
Edward de Vere, the seventeenth Earl of Oxford, is perhaps the most influential and imaginative author of the renaissance. Though he received a bad name for his poor money management and harsh behavior, his work on poetry and development of verse has been key to the history of literature. De Vere was born at Castle Hedingham in Essex, April 2, 1550 (May 1). The de Vere family was hereditarily the Lord Chamberlains of England (May 1). They had been …
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…for the arts was true, and he will be remembered for his poems not his mistakes. Works Cited 1.) Frisbee, George. Edward de Vere, A Great Elizabethan. Great Britain: Kemp Hall, 1931. 2.) Green, Nina. Letter to the Author. 13 December 1998 3.) Looney, Thomas J. The Poems of Edward de Vere. London: Cecil Palmer, 1921. 4.) May, Steven. "Edward de Ver, the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford". Professional essay (1997) 1-6 5.) Ogburn, Dorothy and Charlton. The Renaissance Man of England. New York: Van Rees, 1947.
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