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Alexander Brome (1620 – 30 June 1666) was an English poet.
Life
Brome was by profession an attorney, and was the author of many drinking songs and of satirical verses in favour of the Royalists and in opposition to the Rump Parliament. In 1661, following the Restoration, he published Songs and other Poems, containing songs on various subjects, followed by a series of political songs; ballads, epistles, elegies and epitaphs; epigrams and translations. Izaak Walton wrote an introductory eclogue for this volume in praise of the writer, and his gaiety and wit won him the title of the English Anacreon in Edward Phillips's Theatrum Poetarum.[1]
Brome published a translation of Horace by himself and others in 1666, and was the author of a comedy entitled The Cunning Lovers (1654). He also edited two volumes of Richard Brome's plays.[1]
He died in his house in Barge Yard in the parish of St Stephen Walbrook in the City of London in June 1666, and was buried in the parish church.[2]
References
- ^ a b Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911
- ^ Newcourt, Richard (1708). Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense. Vol. 1. London. p. 106.
Sources
- McWilliams, J. H. (2006). "Brome, Alexander". In Kastan, David Scott (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Oxford University Press.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Brome, Alexander". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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First Reading
TerryF • Link
Alexander Brome (1620 – June 30, 1666), was an English poet.
"He was by profession an attorney, and was the author of many drinking songs and of satirical verses in favor of the Royalists and in opposition to the Rump Parliament. In 1661, following the Restoration, he published Songs and other Poems, containing songs on various subjects, followed by a series of political songs; ballads, epistles, elegies and epitaphs; epigrams and translations. Izaak Walton wrote an introductory eclogue for this volume in praise of the writer, and his gaiety and wit won for him the title of the English Anacreon in Edward Phillips's Theatrum Poetarum.
"Brome published in 1666 a translation of Horace by himself and others, and was the author of a comedy entitled The Cunning Lovers (1654). He also edited two volumes of Richard Brome's plays."
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dirk • Link
Selected poems:
http://www.theotherpages.org/poem…
in Aqua Scripto • Link
"The Mad Lover" a must read for all those that suffer spring, vino and credit cards.
dirk • Link
"Courtship" clearly inspired by Catullus:
Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus,
rumoresque senum seueriorum
omnes unius aestimemus assis.
soles occidere et redire possunt:
nobis cum semel occidit breuis lux,
nox est perpetua una dormienda.
da mi basia mille, deinde centum,
dein mille altera, dein secunda centum,
deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum.
dein, cum milia multa fecerimus,
conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus,
aut ne quis malus inuidere possit,
cum tantum sciat esse basiorum.
Let us live, my Lesbia, let us love,
and all the words of the old, and so moral,
may they be worth less than nothing to us!
Suns may set, and suns may rise again:
but when our brief light has set,
night is one long everlasting sleep.
Give me a thousand kisses, a hundred more,
another thousand, and another hundred,
and, when we’ve counted up the many thousands,
confuse them so as not to know them all,
so that no enemy may cast an evil eye,
by knowing that there were so many kisses.
Transl.: (c) 2001 A.S.Kline
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Wim van der Meij • Link
Another title of works by his hand: "Loyal Songs and Madrigals". A bit of a spoiler: Sam records his death in the Diary on 3rd July 1666.
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Bill • Link
Alexander Brome, an attorney, in the lord mayor's court, was author of songs, madrigals, epigrams, and other little pieces of poetry. His songs were much sung by the cavaliers, and played by every fiddler. The loyalty and the tune appear to have been the chief recommendation of these compositions. His most considerable performance is a translation of Horace. He died in June, 1666, to the great regret of all his friends, who lost a very agreeable companion.
---A Biographical History of England. J. Granger, 1775.
Bill • Link
Alexander Brome, an attorney in the Lord Mayor's Court, author of Loyal Songs and Madrigals, much sung by the Cavaliers, and of a translation of portions of Horace. His death is recorded in the Diary on the 3rd July, 1666. He was regretted as an agreeable companion.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.
Bill • Link
BROME, ALEXANDER (1620-1666), poet ; attorney; royalist in civil war; published dramatic and poetical works, and edited plays by Richard Brome, and variorum translation of Horace, 1666.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.