Francis Beaumont was a dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre, most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher.
Beaumont was the son of Sir Francis Beaumont of Grace Dieu, near Thringstone in Leicestershire, a justice of the common pleas. He was born at the family seat and was educated at Broadgates Hall (now Pembroke College, Oxford) at age thirteen. Following the death of his father in 1598, he left university without a degree and followed in his father's footsteps by entering the Inner Temple in London in 1600.
Accounts suggest that Beaumont did not work long as a lawyer. He became a student of poet and playwright Ben Jonson ; he was also acquainted with Micheal Drayton and other poets and dramatists, and decided that was where his passion lay. His first work, Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, appeared in 1602. The 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica describes the work as "not on the whole discreditable to a lad of eighteen, fresh from the popular love-poems of
Poems by this Poet
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A Funeral Elegy on the Death of The Lady Penelope Clifton | 30 July 2013 |
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A Letter to Ben Jonson | 29 November 2013 |
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A Sonnet | 3 June 2013 |
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Ad Comitissam Rutlandia | 31 July 2013 |
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An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland | 31 July 2013 |
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An Elegy on the Lady Markham | 31 July 2013 |
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Aspatia's Song | 29 November 2013 |
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Better music ne'er was known | 29 November 2013 |
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Bridal Song | 29 November 2013 |
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Come, sleep | 29 November 2013 |
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