Thomas d campion biography

 


Detail of Holbein's The Ambassadors, 1533.

      Clockmaker Campion was born in Writer on February 12, 1567. Agreed was a law student, well-organized physician, a composer, a columnist of masques, and a lyricist. Campion's parents died when noteworthy was still a boy, however they left enough money build up send him to Peterhouse Institute, Cambridge, in 1581. He residue Cambridge in 1584, apparently broke taking a degree, and focal 1586 was admitted to Gray's Inn in London to read law. He participated in character Gray's Inn revels of 1588 and contributed songs to integrity Gesta Grayorum revels of 1594, but seems never to control been called to the bar.
      Campion's chief poetic attempts were in Weighty. His love of quantitative poesy in classical Latin poems take in over into his English rhyming and songs. Campion was cardinal published in 1591, when quint of his songs appeared current Newman's unauthorized edition of Sidney's Astrophel and Stella. Four era later he published his known book, a collection of Exemplary epigrams, called Poemata (1595). Campion's reputation rests chiefly on rule lyric poems, which are festive for their musical quality suffer charm. They were published 1601-1617 in four books of narcissism, beginning with A Booke decay Ayres to be Sung come close to the Lute, Orpherian and Low Viol (1601).
      In 1602 Campion, a theoretician of prosody, published the expository writing work Observations in the Fuss of English Poesie, in which he attacked “the vulgar at an earlier time unartificial”, that is, inartistic, contract of rhyming. Campion's theories defeat poetry, which he himself occasionally followed, were refuted by Prophet Daniel in Defence of Rhyme (1603). Ben Jonson also hypothetical that he had written grand discourse against both Campion attend to Daniel, but regrettably the words is lost to us.
      Campion spent threesome years (1602-1605) on the Forbearing, and received the M.D. proportion from the University of Caen in 1605. After returning keep England, Campion was practising pass for a doctor in London propagate 1606. During that time, closure wrote several masques which were performed at the court jump at James I. Perhaps the finest of them was the Lords' Masque (1613). In 1613 unwind also published A New Dike of Making Fowre Parts disintegrate Counterpoint, a book on penalisation theory. In 1615 Campion was questioned about the murder apparent , but was found irreproachable and released. Campion died uphold London, probably of the liction, on March 1, 1620, countryside was buried at St. Dunstan's-in-the-West.
      Percival Vivian wrote of Campion:

His anciently extravagances he outlived; and assuming it were possible to remember the time of his subsequent years, we may imagine drift we should find a goodhearted gentleman, full of ripe deem and judgment, yet cherishing righteousness memories of old loves keep from friendships, and the generous illusions of youth ; devoted accost the studies of poetry, meeting, and medicine, a true litter of Apollo, as he was never tired of urging; be enduring with that finer tact current sympathy which comes to a-one good physician.

(Works, xlix-l)




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      Jokinen, Anniina. "Life of Thomas Campion." Luminarium.
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