Alexander Brome
Alexander Brome (1620 – 30 June 1666) was an English poet.
Life
Brome was by profession an attorney, and was the author of many drinking songs and of satirical verses in favour of the Royalists and in opposition to the Rump Parliament. In 1661, following the Restoration, he published Songs and other Poems, containing songs on various subjects, followed by a series of political songs; ballads, epistles, elegies and epitaphs; epigrams and translations. Izaak Walton wrote an introductory eclogue for this volume in praise of the writer, and his gaiety and wit won him the title of the English Anacreon in Edward Phillips's Theatrum Poetarum.[1]
Brome published a translation of Horace by himself and others in 1666, and was the author of a comedy entitled The Cunning Lovers (1654). He also edited two volumes of Richard Brome's plays.[1]
He died in his house in Barge Yard in the parish of St Stephen Walbrook in the City of London in June 1666, and was buried in the parish church.
Poems by this Poet
| Poem | Post date |
Rating |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Love, Drink, and Debt | 29 November 2013 |
(1 vote) |
1 |
| An Elegy on the death of his Schoolmaster Mr. W. H. | 19 May 2014 |
(1 vote) |
0 |
| A Happy death | 29 November 2013 |
(1 vote) |
0 |
| On the turn-coat Clergy | 19 May 2014 |
(1 vote) |
0 |
| On a Butchers Dog that bit a Commanders Mare that stood to be Knight of a Shire | 19 May 2014 |
(1 vote) |
0 |
| The New Knight Errant | 19 May 2014 |
(1 vote) |
0 |
| A Speech made to the Lord General Monck, at Clotheworkers-Hall | 19 May 2014 |
(1 vote) |
0 |
| Come let us be merry | 19 May 2014 |
(1 vote) |
0 |
| Practick Love | 19 May 2014 |
(1 vote) |
0 |
| On the loss of a Garrison | 19 May 2014 |
(1 vote) |
0 |