Ronn McFarlane and Robert Aubry Davis: Pipers Galliard

Richard Barnfield (1574-1627): If music and sweet poetry agree—Raised in Shropshire and attending Oxford, Barnfield was caught up in the spirit of the time—Sir Philip Sidney died when he was still at school—so he came to London to find his heroes. He met Drayton and maybe Spenser, and began publishing in 1594, with his second collection, the twenty sonnets of Cynthia being addressed to Ganymede. This made Barnfield the only other poet of the age to address a sonnet cycle to a man outside of ...
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