Musophilus

work by Daniel

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In English literature: Other poetic styles
…between plainness and compliment; his Musophilus (1599), dedicated to Greville, defends the worth of poetry but says there are too many frivolous wits writing. The cast of Daniel’s mind is stoical, and his language is classically precise. His major project was a verse history of The Civil Wars Between the…
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