Henry Reynolds
Henry Reynolds (1564–1632) was an English schoolmaster poet and literary critic of the seventeenth century. Henry Reynolds was born in Suffolk, he is known for two works: Aminta Englisht of 1628, a translation of Tasso, and Mythomystes, a 1632 critical work on poetry considered to be heavily influenced by the Neoplatonism of the early Italian Renaissance. He was the dedicatee of a 1627 poem by Michael Drayton.
Henry Reynolds
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- 1564
- Died
- 1632
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- poet · schoolmaster · literary critic · pedagogue · writer
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In 1611 he was rumoured to be planning to marry Elizabeth Brydges, and then the widow of a Mr Evans a clerk of Parliament. Otherwise there is sparse biographical information.
• Aminta, Englisht. The Henry Reynolds translation (1972). Edited by Clifford Davidson, appendix by Robert Dean. • Mythomystes (1972) Scolar Press reprint,
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