Who is Sir William Davenant

Sir William Davenant (baptised 3 March 1606 – 7 April 1668), also spelled D'Avenant, was an English poet and playwright. Along with Thomas Killigrew, Davenant was one of the rare figures in English Renaissance theatre whose career spanned both the Caroline and Restoration eras and who was active both before and after the English Civil War and during the Interregnum.

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Early life

Davenant is believed to have been born in late February, 1606 in Oxford, the son of Jane Shepherd Davenant and John Davenant, proprietor of the Crown Tavern (or Crown Inn) and Mayor of Oxford. He was baptised on 3 March, his godfather sometimes being said to have been William Shakespeare, who, according to John Aubrey, had stayed frequently at the Crown during his...
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Sir William Davenant Poems

• To A Mistress Dying
  Lover. Your beauty, ripe and calm and fresh
  As eastern summers are,
  Must now, forsaking time and flesh,
  Add light to some small star....
• Praise And Prayer
  Praise is devotion fit for mighty minds,
  The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice;
  Where Heaven divided faiths united finds:
  But Prayer in various discord upward flies....
• Aubade
  The lark now leaves his wat'ry nest,
  And climbing shakes his dewy wings.
  He takes this window for the East,
  And to implore your light he sings-...

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• Nikkifirewall: music/politics/environment/tech/business~greetings and salutations~thankyou followers + new~wishing you all a very happy, safe and peaceful day or evening around the globe. today’s quote: ‘courage my soul, now learn to wield’ - sir william davenant
• Anecdotalwisdom: apologising because he could not finish a poem on which he was working, dramatist sir william davenant said, “i shall ask leave to desist, when i am interrupted by so great an experiment as dying.”
• Temulkar: sir william davenant and the origins of humpty dumpty.
• Austeritykitchn: march 3: st cunegundes day. poets edmund waller, sir william davenant, and thomas otway born; sir nicholas carew beheaded; and, sometime in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, the merry undertakers sketched by "merry-hearted artist" john nixon.
• Sky_goodwill: here's one: "honour is the moral conscience of the great." ~ sir william davenant. an understanding by an english poet. honour produces a golden aura.

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