Puttenham, George — (?1529 1591) He was the nephew of Sir Thomas Elyot (?14901546), diplomat and author of the Boke Named the Governour (1531), a treatise on education and politics. On account of his being a Catholic, Puttenham and his work came under Puritan… … British and Irish poets
Puttenham, George — ▪ English writer born c. 1520 died , autumn 1590, London, Eng. English courtier, generally acknowledged as the author of the anonymously published The Arte of English Poesie (1589), one of the most important critical works of the… … Universalium
George Puttenham — (1529–1590) is the reputed English author of The Arte of English Poesie (1589).FamilyGeorge was the second son of Robert Puttenham of Sherfield on Loddon in Hampshire and his wife Margaret, the daughter of Sir Richard Elyot and sister of Sir… … Wikipedia
PUTTENHAM (G.) — PUTTENHAM GEORGE (1529 env. env. 1590) D’aucuns disent que c’est Richard, son frère, et non George, qui a écrit le célèbre traité de rhétorique The Arte of English Poesie publié sans nom d’auteur en 1589, par Richard Field, l’éditeur des poèmes… … Encyclopédie Universelle
George Puttenham — (1530 – 1590) est un rhétoricien anglais, auteur de The Arte of English Poesie (L Art de la poésie anglaise) publié en 1589. Biographie George Puttenham est le second fils de Robert Puttenham de Sherfield on Loddon dans le Hampshire. Sa femme,… … Wikipédia en Français
Puttenham — may refer to:* George Puttenham (1529 1590), English literary critic * HMS Puttenham , a Ham class minesweeper * Puttenham, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom * Puttenham, Surrey, England, United Kingdomee also* Puttenham Common … Wikipedia
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford — The Earl of Oxford Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, unknown artist after lost orig … Wikipedia
Oxfordian theory — The Oxfordian theory of Shakespearean authorship holds that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550 1604), wrote the plays and poems attributed to William Shakespeare of Stratford upon Avon. While mainstream scholars who take the Stratfordian… … Wikipedia
Confessio Amantis — ( The Lover s Confession ) is a 33,000 line Middle English poem by John Gower, which uses the confession made by an ageing lover to the chaplain of Venus as a frame story for a collection of shorter narrative poems. According to its prologue, it… … Wikipedia
punctuation — punctuational, punctuative, adj. /pungk chooh ay sheuhn/, n. 1. the practice or system of using certain conventional marks or characters in writing or printing in order to separate elements and make the meaning clear, as in ending a sentence or… … Universalium
