Sir Edward Dyer

Sir Edward Dyer was a courtier and, with Fulke Greville, one of the "worthy and fellow-poets" whom Sir Philip Sidney celebrated in a pastoral on their meeting.

England's Helicon (1600) prints six poems over the initials "S. E. D." (once "S. E. Dyer"). A. H. Bullen, following Francis Davison's manuscript list of the contributors, reads them as Dyer's, though he thinks one of them, "To Phyllis the fair Shepherdess", really belongs to Thomas Lodge, whose Phillis (1593) contains it. The poems here are all from that anthology, as printed in Bullen's 1887 edition.