Edward Benlowes

English poet
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Quick Facts
Born:
July 12, 1602, Finchingfield, Essex, Eng.
Died:
Dec. 18, 1676, Oxford, Oxfordshire (aged 74)
Notable Works:
“Theophila, or Loves Sacrifice”
Movement / Style:
Metaphysical poets

Edward Benlowes (born July 12, 1602, Finchingfield, Essex, Eng.—died Dec. 18, 1676, Oxford, Oxfordshire) was an English poet of the metaphysical school and a patron of the arts. Though his family was Roman Catholic, Benlowes early become a vehement Protestant. He used the wealth from his large inherited estates to support his various artistic endeavours; he commissioned engravings to illustrate his own and his friends’ poems, and he owned his own printing press. During the 1640s he composed Theophila, or Loves Sacrifice (printed 1652), a long poem describing, in some fine rhapsodic passages but with extravagant conceits, the progress of ...(100 of 120 words)