Raleigh also recycling verses from "Ocean to Scinthia" for Queen Anne, so it is his greatest and not his greatest work at that point.
NB Ronsard who dies aged 62 in 1585, still scribbling (and eating) away:
Toute la viande qui entre
Dans le goufre ingrat de ce ventre
Incontinent sans fruict resort:
Mais la belle Science exquise
Que par l'ouye j'ay apprise
M'accompagne jusqu'a la mort.
--Tom
ps revised version of Ariosto's OF published when poet age 58; dies next year.
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Subject: Re: Old poets -- quick question
Yes, his plea to Queen Anne is pretty late. Not his greatest poem, though.
Susanne
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Elizabeth Sagaser <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
I always think of Ralegh in prison in his 60s fitting in the history of the world before Time shut up the story of his dayes...
Elizabeth
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Germaine Warkentin <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
I'm doing a paper for the "Old Age and Creativity" conference here next week. Mine is on Petrarch and "late style". Can anyone suggest names of poets and other writers of acknowledged achievement in the period 1300-1700 who remained creative in old age -- for this period, that would be "over sixty". When I search my brain I come up with painters, not poets, Titian being the obvious example -- it took the plague of 1576 to finally finish him off at the age of somewhere around 88, still painting energetically. Suggestions gratefully received! Germaine
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