Metaphysical & Cavalier
Sir Henry Wotton
1568–1639
Sir Henry Wotton was an English diplomat and Provost of Eton College. He wrote a few poems that circulated widely.
Palgrave includes "Character of a Happy Life" and his lines to Elizabeth of Bohemia.
Poems (8)
- Character of a Happy Life
- Elizabeth of Bohemia
- Farewell to the Vanities of the World
- A Meditation
- Upon the Death of Sir A. Morton's Wife
- An Elegy of a Woman's Heart
- A Description of the Spring
- Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset, then falling from Favour
See Sir Henry Wotton in the full archive →
