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Sir William Davenant Sir William Davenant
(1606 - 1668 / England)
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Sir William Davenant (or D'Avenant), dramatist and theater manager, poet and courtier, is a link between the older Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and the new Restoration drama. From his innovations improving the platform stage our modern playhouse is derived; he refined the genre of the heroic drama .. .. more >>

 
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5     To a Mistress Dying
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"Before we shall again behold
In his diurnal race the world's great eye,
We may as silent be and cold
As are the shades where buried lovers lie."
Sir William Davenant (1606-1668), British poet. Endimion Porter and Olivia (l. 1-4). OBS. Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, The. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough, eds. (1934) Oxford University Press.
"Go! climb that rock, and when thou there hast found
A star, contracted in a diamond,"
Sir William Davenant (1606-1668), British poet. For the Lady Olivia Porter; a Present upon a New Year's Day (l. 5-6). OBS. Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, The. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough, eds. (1934) Oxford University Press.
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Sir William Davenant
A biography of English dramatist Sir William Davenant.
http://www.theatredatabase.com/17th_century/sir_william_davenant.html 


William Davenant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He is buried in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey where the inscription on his tablet reads "O rare Sir William Davenant." It has been noted that the ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Davenant 


Sir William Davenant
Sir William Davenant (or D'Avenant), English poet and dramatist, was baptized on the 3rd of March 1606; he was born at the Crown Inn Oxford of which his ...
http://www.nndb.com/people/037/000096746/ 


Sir William Davenant -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
Britannica online encyclopedia article on Sir William Davenant: English poet, playwright, and theatre manager who was made poet laureate on the strength of ...
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9029460/Sir-William-Davenant 


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