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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Germaine Warkentin // English (Emeritus), University of Toronto
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