(1) Epistle. To Prince Henrie [Henry, Prince of Wales]; (2) Epistle. To Sir R.C. [possibly to Sir Robert Kerr of Ancrum]; (3) Epistle. To the Ladye Harrington [to Anne, Lady Harington; (4) Advice to an unnnamed lady [in fact Lucy, Countess of Bedford]
Four verse epistles, by Samuel Daniel
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 36
- Dates of Creation
- ca.1601-1625
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 10 ff. Stitched unbound booklet. Written in a single hand.
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The poet and dramatist, Samuel Daniel, was born near Taunton in 1562, the son of a music master. He was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and by 1585 was working for Lord Stafford, the English Ambassador to France. He was later employed as a tutor to William Herbert (afterwards Earl of Pembroke) and then as tutor to Lady Anne Clifford at Skipton Castle. In 1603 he wrote "A panegyric congratulatory" on the accession to the throne of James I and the following year he gained a place at Court. His tragedy "Philotas" was thought to contain a sympathetic portrayal of the treasonable conduct of the Earl of Essex and he was out of favour for a short period. After leaving the Court, he retired to Beckington, near Devizes, where he died in 1619.
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Acquisition Information
Purchased from Sotheby 14 December 1976, Lot 226
Note
In English
Other Finding Aids
Indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/intro.html
Bibliography
The poems are published, with a detailed description of the manuscript and facsimile reproductions, in John Pitcher, Samuel Daniel, the Brotherton manuscript: a study in authorship (Leeds: University of Leeds, School of English, 1981)