Who is George Wither

George Wither (11 June 1588 O.S. (21 June 1588 NS) – 2 May 1667 O.S. (12 May 1667 NS)) was an English poet, pamphleteer, and satirist. He was a prolific writer who adopted a deliberate plainness of style; he was several times imprisoned. C. V. Wedgwood wrote "every so often in the barren acres of his verse is a stretch enlivened by real wit and observation, or fired with a sudden intensity of feeling".

Context and poetic reputation Wither has been classified as a Spenserian, with Michael Drayton, Giles Fletcher, Phineas Fletcher, and Henry More. The early Jacobean Spenserians were generally republican rather than imperial (at least in terms of ancient Rome), of the "country party" rather than the "court party", nostalgic for Elizabeth I, and in favour of ...
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George Wither Poems

• Song
  Shall I, wasting in despair,
  Die, because a woman's fair?
  Or make pale my cheeks with care
  'Cause another's rosy are? ...
• Prelude From The Shepherd's Hunting
  Seest thou not, in clearest days,
  Oft thick fogs cloud Heaven's rays?
  And that vapours which do breathe
  From the Earth's gross womb beneath, ...
• A Poet's Home
  Two pretty rills do meet, and meeting make
  Within one valley a large silver lake:
  About whose banks the fertile mountains stood
  In ages passèd bravely crowned with wood, ...
• The Lord Is King
  The Lord is King, and weareth
  A robe of glory bright:
  He clothed with strength appeareth,
  And girt with powerful might. ...
• Prelude
  (From _The Shepherd's Hunting_)
  
  Seest thou not, in clearest days,
  Oft thick fogs cloud Heaven's rays? ...

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Top 10 most used topics by George Wither

I Love You 19 Love 19 Good 16 High 16 Great 15 Mind 15 Nature 14 Sweet 14 Heart 13 Away 12

George Wither Quotes

• I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin.

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