Nicholas Breton

Nicholas Breton ( also Britton or Brittaine ) (* 1545; ? † 1626? ) Was an English poet of the Elizabethan age.

Life

His life data are largely unsecured. Most information can be deduced from his works ( Lit.Kuskop ). Breton was a witty and prolific English poet and writer of novels, religious and pastoral poems of political treatises of satires, dialogues, stories, anecdotes, collections of letters, essays and aphorisms, inter alia, He must have spent his life mainly in London and have had a high esteem among his contemporaries. In the first half of his life he frequented much the nobility (especially at the court of Mary Sidney [ Herbert ], Countess of Pembroke), from around 1600, a complete change of life must have set with turning away from the court.

Works

Are Wit's Trenchmour (1597 ), The Wil of Wit ( 1599), A Poste with a Packet of Mad Letters ( 1602-06 ), Strange News out of Divers Countries ( 1622), Mary Magdalen 's Lamentations Of his 22 prose writings (1604 ) and The Passion of a Discontented Mind ( 1601) highlighted.

Of his 20 verse epics and seals are The Pilgrimage to Paradise ( 1592), Melancholike Humours (1600), The Passionate Shepheard (1604 ), An Invective against Treason; I would and I would not ( 1614), pasquil 's Fooles cappe (1600), pasquil 's Mistresse (1600), pasquil 's yoke and passeth Not ( 1600) pointed out.