Fletcher, Giles
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...rector at Alderton, Suffolk, in 1619. His best poem, Christs Victory and Triumph (1610), an example of baroque devotional poetry, owed much to Spenser. Giles Fletcher the elders first son, Phineas Fletcher, 1582 1650, was a poet also...