William Smith (poet)

William Smith (poet)

William Smith (15??-16??) was an English sonneteer, poet, and friend of Edmund Spenser. He participated in "The Phoenix Nest" (1593), "England's Helicon" (1600) and published a sonnet sequence "Chloris" or "The Complaint of the passionate despised Shepheard" in 1596.

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* [http://www.jstor.org/view/0038321x/sp040087/04x0836d/0 Review of the book "The Poems of William Smith" by Clyde V. Williams]


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