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Biography of Thomas CampionName: Thomas CampionBirth Date: February 12, 1567 Death Date: March 1, 1620 Place of Birth: Holborn, England Nationality: English Gender: Male Occupations: poet, composer, lyricist, playwright, physician Thomas Campion An English poet best known during his lifetime as an author of Latin poetry, Thomas Campion (1567-1620) is chiefly remembered for his songs for voice and lute and a number of masques celebrating occasions at court. He produced theoretical writings on music composition and in Observations in the Art of English Poesie (1602) called for the use of classical meter in English poetry.Campion was born to John and Lucy Campion in St. Andrew's parish, Holborn, on February 12, 1567. His father died in 1576, and his mother, who was the daughter of one of the queen's sergeants-at-arms, remarried but was soon widowed. After remarrying again, Campion's mother died herself, and from 1580 he was raised by his stepfather, Augustine Steward. Campion was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, but left in 1584 without taking a degree. During the late 1580s he studied law at Gray's Inn, where he developed an interest in musical arts and participated in dramatic …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…of his own composition, and only he wrote lyric poetry of enduring literary value whose very construction is deeply etched with the poet's care for its ultimate fusion with music." Further Reading Davis, Walter R., Thomas Campion, Twayne Publishers, 1987. Ing, Catherine, Elizabethan Lyrics: A Study in the Development of English Metres and Their Relation to Poetic Effect, Chatto & Windus, 1968. Lindley, David, Thomas Campion, E.J. Brill, 1986.MacDonagh, Thomas, Thomas Campion and the Art of English Poetry, Hodges, Figgis, 1913. Reprint, Russell & Russell, 1973.Wilson, Christopher, Words and Notes Coupled Lovingly Together: Thomas Campion, A Critical Study, Garland, 1989.ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, July 1988. English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature, April 1988.The Spectator, January-June 1970.Sutton, Dana F. "The Latin Poetry of Thomas Campion (1567-1620): A Hypertext Edition," http://eee.uci.edu/~papyri/campion/ (February 7, 2003)."Thomas Campion (1567-1620)," http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/campion.htm (February 6, 2003). |