Tudor & Elizabethan

Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford

1534–1604


Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford, was an Elizabethan courtier and poet. Palgrave's index gives his dates as 1534 to 1604; modern scholarship places his birth in 1550.

Palgrave includes his poem "A Renunciation".

  1. A Renunciation
  2. The Shepherd's Commendation of his Nymph
  3. Fancy and Desire

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