John Abbot (poet)

John Abbot (poet)

John Abbot (1587/8–c.1650) was an English Roman Catholic clergyman and poet. His provenance is uncertain, he might have been from either London or Leicester, but he is believed to be the nephew both of George Abbot, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Robert Abbot, the bishop of Salisbury. Abbot was thus from a strongly Protestant family, but after being educated at Balliol College, Oxford, he travelled to the continent where he was converted to Roman Catholicism. On returning to England he was in Jesuit orders for a while, before working as a secular priest. In 1635 he was imprisoned in the Gatehouse at Westminster. He was released within a year, but in 1637 he was again arrested, and seems to have spent the rest of his life in prison. He was, along with other Catholic priests, condemned to death in 1641, but the conviction was never executed, and he appears to have died in prison in 1650.

His best known work is his poem "Devout Rhapsodies" (2 vols., 1647), about the war in heaven and the temptation and fall of man. The work can be seen a precursor of Milton's "Paradise Lost"

Selected works

*"Jesus Praefigured" (1623)
*"The Sad Condition of a Distracted Kingdome" (1645)
*"Devout Rhapsodies" (2 vols., 1647)

References

* Jordan, Richard D., "Abbot, John", "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", (Oxford, 2004)


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