Henry Reynolds
English schoolmaster, poet and literary critic
About Henry Reynolds
Lived 1564 – 1632 (aged 67–68). Henry Reynolds was a poet, schoolmaster, literary critic, pedagogue and writer.
Henry Reynolds (1564–1632) was an English schoolmaster poet and literary critic of the seventeenth century.
Born in Suffolk, he is known for two works: Aminta Englisht of 1628, a translation from Tasso, and Mythomystes, a 1632 critical work on poetry considered to be most influenced by the Neoplatonism of the early Italian Renaissance. He was the dedicatee of a 1627 poem by Michael Drayton.
In 1611 he was rumoured to be planning to marry Elizabeth Brydges, and then the widow of a Mr Evans a clerk of Parliament.
Otherwise there is sparse biographical information.
Works Aminta, Englisht. The Henry Reynolds translation (1972). Edited by Clifford Davidson, appendix by Robert Dean. Mythomystes (1972) Scolar Press reprint ,
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English schoolmaster, poet and literary critic
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Henry Reynolds was a poet, schoolmaster, literary critic, pedagogue and writer.
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