Samuel Daniel

Miles Layram (University of York)

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Ed. by J A Roe, University of York
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.03: English Writing and Culture: Renaissance (Elizabethan and Jacobean periods) , 1485-1625.
Vol. editors: William M. Hamlin (Washington State University), J A Roe (University of York), Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University), Ema Vyroubalova (Trinity College Dublin)

Dates

Born 1563
Died 1619
Activity 1592-1619

Places

Born in England
Active in England

Activities

Primary

Playwright / Dramatist
Poet

Other

Historian / Chronicler

Resources

Samuel Daniel was born in Somerset, England, in 1562, and attended Magdalen Hall (later renamed Hertford College) at the University of Oxford. During a writing career which was sustained by tutoring work and by various types of patronage, and which included, early on, periods spent in Italy and France, he produced a body of work which is notable for the excellence attained not only within a number of the poems, but also within other types of written composition, including historical narrative and poetic theory.

The literary work for which Daniel is now best-known is the sonnet cycle Delia. Twenty-seven of these lyrics were appended without his permission to a pirated edition of Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella in …

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Citation: Layram, Miles . "Samuel Daniel". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 September 2015 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1130, accessed 08 April 2025.]