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Fulke Greville

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Assistant Professor (Amity University), Digital Humanist
Ph.D in English (GITAM, India), M.A. and B.A. in English (B.C.C., B.K.U, India), P.G.D.E. -I by Research (B.C.U, UK), TESOL Prof. Certification (Arizona State University, USA)

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Fulke Greville 1554-1628

  1. 1st baron Brooke, from aristocratic family
  2. joined Philip Sidney at school at Shrewsbury, Jesus college, Cambridge, Sidney at the court of Elizabeth I, became favourite of elizabeth.
  3. Fulke Greville, Philip sidney, and Sir Edward Dyer became member of the Areopagus Club, the literary clique which under the leadership of Gabriel harvey, supported the introduction of classical meters into English Verse.
  4. Elizabeth forbade Greville’s request to join the earl of Leicester in his campaign in his Netherlands but permitted Philip Sidney who died of a musket shot at this campaign.
  5. Greville wrote an elegy on the death of Sidney : to The Phonix Nest (1593) and a biography of his friend: Life of the Renowned Sir philip sidney.
  6. Works:
    1. An elegy on the death of Sir Philip Sidney 1593
    2. Mustapha 1609
    3. Alaham 1633
    4. A tratie of Humne Learning 1633
    5. The Life of the Renowed Sir philip Sidney 1652
    6. Of Monarchy 1670
    7. A Treatise of religion 1670

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