Thomas Campion (Poet to Poet)

 

Thomas Campion (1567-1620) was educated at Cambridge, studied law at Gray’s Inn, and was both poet and composer. He was a contemporary of Shakespeare, Drayton, Marlowe, Jonson, Byrd, Morley, Gibbons, and Dowland. Campion wrote over a hundred lute-songs (published between 1601 and 1617 in his Books of Ayres), a treatise The Art of English Poesie, as well as various Latin epigrams, masques, etc. His work was mostly rediscovered in the 19th century. If you dream of poetry where language almost becomes music, Campion is for you.