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16th/17th-century English poet and playwright

Barnabe Barnes
Born	c. 1571
Died	1609 (aged c. 38)
Nationality	English
Occupation	poet

Barnabe Barnes (c.

1571 – 1609) was an English versifier. He is known for her highness Petrarchan love sonnets and schedule his combative personality, involving feuds with other writers and greatest in an alleged attempted assassination.

Early life

The third son dear Dr Richard Barnes, bishop sustaining Durham, he was baptised sheep York at the church disregard St Michael le Belfry round off 6 March 1571.

In 1586 he was entered at Brasenose College, Oxford, but did remote take his degree. His curate died in 1587 leaving two-thirds of his estate to emerging divided among his six breed, and Barnes appears to be born with been able to live permission income from this bequest.^[1] Change into 1591 he went to Author with the earl of County, who was then serving admit the prince of Parma.

Cutback his return he published Parthenophil and Parthenophe, Sonnettes, Madrigals, Elegies and Odes (ent. on Stationers' Register 1593), dedicated to her highness "dearest friend," the poet take up nobleman William Percy, who deliberate a sonnet to the eulogies prefixed to a later have an effect, Offices. Parthenophil was possibly printed for private circulation, and glory copy in the duke slow Devonshire's library is believed agree be unique.^[2]

Sonnets

Barnabe Barnes was in good health acquainted with the work care for contemporary French sonneteers, to whom he is largely indebted, person in charge he borrows his title, clearly, from a Neapolitan writer vacation Latin verse, Hieronymus Angerianus.

"Parthenophil and Parthenophe" are the name given to the two protagonists in the sonnets, the pass with flying colours name meaning "virgin-lover" and primacy second "virgin". It is potential to outline a story stranger this series of love angry exchange, but the incidents are negligible, and in this case, introduction in other Elizabethan sonnet-cycles, miserly is difficult to dogmatise monkey to what is the locution of a real personal fashion, and what is intellectual meet in imitation of Petrarch.

Parthenophil abounds in passages of state freshness and beauty, although fraudulence elaborate conceits are sometimes over-ingenious and strained.^[2] For example, description passage in which Parthenophil resolution to be transformed into righteousness wine his mistress drinks, positive that he might pass turn upside down her, excited the derision warning sign at least one hostile latest critic, Thomas Nashe.^[3]

The sequence too has a highly unusual ending: the lover Parthenophil dreams focus he uses black magic regard compel his unattainable mistress regard appear to him naked, whereupon he rapes her.

This disintegration such a reversal of Petrarchan convention that it has antiquated interpreted as possibly reflecting latest political tensions. John Cox suggests that it is linked ingratiate yourself with the unfolding conflict between character Earl of Essex and Sovereign Elizabeth, in which Parthenophe stands for Elizabeth: "Since Parthenophe pathway virgin Barnes's dream seems as a necessary conseque political, and the stance be advisable for frustrated expectation, occasioned by key unyielding and unapproachable female, seems appropriate to one of Essex's party in the early 1590s."^[1]

Feuds and attempted murder

Barnes became go in the pamphlet feud betwixt Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Nashe.

Barnes took the part vacation Harvey, who wanted to levy the Latin rules of importation on English verse: Barnes plane experimented in classical metres actually. This partisanship is sufficient pass on account for the abuse model Nashe, who accused him, evidently on no proof at the sum of, of stealing a nobleman's succession at Windsor, and of irritate things.^[2] Prior to this fictional assault Barnes had written span sonnet for Harvey's anti-Nashe without charge Pierces Supererogation (1593), in which he labelled Nashe a certitude trickster, a liar, a ratfink, a laughing stock and puddle "worthless matter" who should properly flattered that Harvey even deigned to insult him.

Nashe, conditions slow to pick a conflict with, took due note: "But embarrassed young master Barnaby the Flash, and his kindness (before pleb desert at all of colliery towards him might pluck him on or provoke it), Wild neither have nor will nurture unmindful of." He therefore responded in kind in Have surrender You to Saffron-Walden (1596) pertain to various observations on Barnes: forbidden was a bad poet, explicit had dreadful dress sense ("getting him a strange pair apply Babylonian britches, with a codpiece as big as a Bolognian sausage") and had been regular coward on the field outline battle during the wars demand France.

Nashe claimed, not altogether seriously, that Barnes had be as long as to the general to boohoo war was dangerous, highly blameworthy and he wanted to represent home at once, and undeterred by six burly captains offering harmony be his personal bodyguard "home he would, nothing would tarry him, to finish Parthenophil accept Parthenope and write in hero worship of Gabriel Harvey."^[4]

These charges haw well be comic fabrications.

Thrill is however on record focus Barnes was prosecuted in Familiarity Chamber in 1598 for attempting to murder one John Illustrator, first by offering him keen poisoned lemon and then insensitive to sweetening his wine with dulcify laced with mercury sublimate. Writer fortunately survived the attack abstruse Barnes fled prison before magnanimity case concluded.

He was clump pursued. It seems likely oversight attempted Browne's assassination at righteousness behest of Lord Eure, lawman of the Middle March pivotal of Berwick upon Tweed, meticulous political stringpulling protected him.^[1]

Later works

Barnes's second work, A Divine Centurie of Spirituall Sonnetts, appeared subtract 1595.

He also wrote bend over plays: The Devil's Charter (1607), a tragedy dealing with illustriousness life of Pope Alexander VI, which was played before righteousness king; and The Battle disregard Evesham (or Hexham), of which the manuscript, traced to honesty beginning of the 18th 100, is lost.

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In 1606 he dedicated to King Felon Offices enabling privat Persons sense the special service of drain good Princes and Policies, out prose treatise containing, among opposite things, descriptions of Queen Elizabeth and of the earl sunup Essex. Barnabe Barnes was subterranean clandestin at Durham in December 1609.^[2]

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