John Lane (poet)

John Lane (fl. 1620) was an English poet. A good friend of John Milton the elder, he lacked university education. He published two poems, Tom Tel-troths Message and his Pens Complaint (1600), which was satirical, and An Elegie vpon the Death of the high and renowned Princesse our late Soueraigne Elizabeth (1603). He left a continuation of The Squire's Tale in manuscript.[1]

References

  1. ↑  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Lane, John (fl.1620)". Dictionary of National Biography 32. London: Smith, Elder & Co.


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