Thomas Campion, Thomas Campion's English Poetry and Music

Roy Booth (Royal Holloway, University of London)

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)

Domains

Literature Topic

Dates

First circulation or publication 1595 - 1615

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Literary/Musical
Poetry (any)

Resources

“The subject of them is for the most part amorous …” (“To the Reader”, A Booke of Ayres, 1601)

In 1986, Christopher Wilson, reviewing “Three Books on English Song”, wrote of the “recent spate of books and articles” about (early) music and Elizabethan lyric poetry (Wilson, p.326). Central to much of this discussion was Thomas Campion, whose “ayres” and other works were the subject of full length studies by Ratcliffe (1981), Lindley (1986), Davis (1987), and Wilson himself in 1989.

What led to this level of critical engagement in the 1980’s, much reduced since then, can be surmised. In the 1970’s, performance of early music was in its first maturity, led in the UK by “The …

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Citation: Booth, Roy. "Thomas Campion's English Poetry and Music". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 October 2013 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35064, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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