Sir Henry Wotton is remembered today primarily as a diplomat and letter writer during the reign of James I, as provost of Eton during the reign of Charles I, and as the author of two of the most frequ...
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In following essay, which was originally published in 1651, Walton, a friend of Wotton's, provides an overview of Wotton's life and career.
Sir Henry Wotton (whose Life I now intend to w...
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Critical Essay by Logan Pearsall Smith
Smith, Logan Pearsall. Preface to The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, Vol. 1, pp. iii-xvi. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966.
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In the following essay, Coleridge summarizes Wotton's life and offers commentary on his major works.
Not many years ago the street of the Holy Well, narrow and mediæval in its aspect, ra...
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In following essay, Leishman analyzes several versions of Wotton's “You Meaner Beauties of the Night,” arguing that changes in the poem were made as it circulated in manuscript an...
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In the following essay, Weld argues that Courtlie Controuersie of Cupid's Cautels, Wotton's translation of Jacque D'Yer's Le Printemps D'Yver, is a source for Robert...
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Critical Essay by C. F. Main
Main, C. F. “Wotton's ‘The Character of a Happy Life’.” The Library, fifth series 10, No. 4 (December 1955): 270-74.
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In the essay below, Pebworth examines several versions of Wotton's “Dazel'd Thus, with Height of Place,” contending that this poem about the fall of a courtier was repeated...
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In the following essay, Pebworth and Summers analyze a sequence of verse epistles between Wotton and John Donne, emphasizing the historical and biographical contexts for the letters.
John Donne'...
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Sir Henry Wotton
