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
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| Translated our of French | 19 May 2014 |
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| Translated out of French | 19 May 2014 |
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| Translated out of Perseus | 5 September 2014 |
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| Upon a Sign-Post, set up by one Mr. Pecke at Skoale in Norfolk | 5 September 2014 |
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| Upon Democritus and Heraclitus | 19 May 2014 |
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| Upon his Mare stoln by a Trooper | 19 May 2014 |
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| Upon riding on a tired horse | 5 September 2014 |
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| Upon the Author's decease, and Poems | 5 September 2014 |
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| Upon the Author, and his Worke | 19 May 2014 |
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| Upon the Cavaleers departing out of London | 5 September 2014 |
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