Thomas Churchyard
Thomas Churchyard född 1520, död 1604, var en engelsk författare.
Churchyard tjänstgjorde i flera krig och var bland annat med vid slaget vid Pinkie Cleugh Erfarenheter från detta använde han sig sedan av i sin diktning. Churchyard sponsrades av flera framstående mecenater, bland annat Henry Howard, earl av Surrey och Edward de Vere, 17:e earl av Oxford. Churchyard författade flera verk till drottning Elisabets ära.
Bibliografi i urval
[redigera | redigera wikitext]- A lamentable and pitifull Description of the wofull warres in Flanders (1578)
- A general rehearsall of warres, called Churchyard's Choise (1579)
- A light Bondel of livelie Discourses, called Churchyardes Charge (1580)
- A Warning to the Wyse, an immediate account of England's 1580 earthquake (1580)[1]
- The Worthines of Wales (1587)
- Churchyard's Challenge (1593)
- A Musicall Consort of Heavenly harmonic, utgiven under titeln Churchyards Charitie (1595)
- A True Discourse Historicall, of the succeeding Governors in the Netherlands (1602)
Noter
[redigera | redigera wikitext]- ^ Google Books: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Volume 41 (London: March 1878), s. 501; accessed 01 April 2010; http://books.google.com/books?id=V_UBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA501&lpg=PA501&dq=Churchyard+London+Earthquake&source=bl&ots=rOEkEWUqbj&sig=4bJpLx04d3IA5j4aMcAA889xqMc&hl=en&ei=kDa1S7PpOsGBlAfp7KlJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CBoQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Churchyard%20London%20Earthquake&f=false
Källor
[redigera | redigera wikitext]- Thomas Churchyard, Churchyard's Chips concerning Scotland. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eXYuAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false, Constable, London (1817).
- Ward, Bernard M (1928), The Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, 1550-1604: From Contemporary Documents., John Murray, London pp. 29–30