Was Elizabeth ever young? --Tom
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Subject: Re: Old poets -- quick question
Elizabeth I's golden speech counts as creativity in "old age," do you think?
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Brad Irish <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
John Skelton (ca. 1460-1529) was quite productive in his final years;
three of his most notable poems (the Wolsey satires) were written in
his 60s.
Best,
Brad
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Susanne Woods <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
> If only we could find the late work of Aemilia Lanyer, 1569-1645.
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> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Gillian Austen
> <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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>> Still harping on London, I'm afraid, but Ben Jonson kept going into his
>> sixties with The New Inn (1629), The Magnetic Lady (1631), and A Tale of a
>> Tub (1633) - all of which Dryden referred to as his "dotages", though I'm
>> afraid I don't remember where I saw that.
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>> Thomas Churchyard may have lasted until his eighties (?1520-1604) but it's
>> a moot point how productive his later years were!
>>
>> Gillian Austen
>> Visiting Fellow, Dept of English
>> University of Bristol
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