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BENLOWES, EDWARD (1603 ?-1676)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 740 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BENLOWES, See also:EDWARD (1603 ?-1676) , See also:English poet, son of See also:Andrew Benlowes of Brent See also:Hall, See also:Essex, was See also:born about 1603. He matriculated at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in 162o, and on leaving the university he made a prolonged tour on the See also:continent of See also:Europe. He was a See also:Roman See also:Catholic in See also:middle See also:life, but became a convert to Protestantism in his later years. He dissipated his See also:fortune by openhanded generosity to his See also:friends and relations, and possibly by serving in the See also:Civil See also:War; so that he was in See also:great poverty at the See also:time of his See also:death, which occurred on the 18th of See also:December 1676. The last eight years of his lifewere passed at See also:Oxford. Many of his writings are in Latin. His most important See also:work is Theophila, or Love's See also:Sacrifice, a Divine Poem (1652). The poem deals with mystical See also:religion, telling how the soul, represented by Theophila, ascends by humility, zeal and contemplation, and triumphs over the sins of the senses. It is written in a curious See also:stanza of three lines of unequal length rhyming together. Until See also:recent times See also:justice has hardly been done to Benlowes' poetical merits and indisputable piety. See also:Samuel See also:Butler who satirized him in his " See also:Character of a Small Poet," found abundant See also:matter for ridicule in his eccentricities; and See also:Pope and See also:Warburton noted him as a See also:patron of See also:bad poets. His Theophila was reprinted by S.

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Singer; and in See also:Minor Poets of the See also:Caroline See also:Period, vol. i.

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