George Daniel of Beswick

George Daniel, the second son of Sir Ingleby Daniel of Kilnwick, Yorkshire, wrote most of his poems as a young man. He fought as a Royalist in the Civil War and afterwards lived in retirement in Yorkshire.

TEXT RECORDS:

1646A Vindication of Poesie.
1646An Essay; endevouring to ennoble our English Poesie by Evidence of latter Quills; and rejecting the Former.
1646The Author.
1646To Time and Honour.

PUBLICATIONS:

Scattered Fancies. 1646.
Trinarchodia. 1649.
Idyllia. 1650.
Poems, ed. A. B. Grosart. 4 vols, 1878.
Selected poems, ed. Thomas Stroup. 1959.

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

English
Anglican

education not known

military
poet

REFERENCE:

DNB; NCBEL.

Thomas B. Stroup, "Daniel, Cavalier Poet" Renaissance Papers (1958); Selected Poems, ed. Thomas B. Stroup (1959); H. N. Davies, "Daniel's 'heightened peggs'" Notes and Queries (October 1969); Cummings, Spenser: The Critical Heritage (1971); Saunders, Renaissance Poets (1983); Raymond A. Anselment, "George Daniel and the Celebration of Caroline Peace" Essays in Literature 12 (1985) 27-39.

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for George Daniel of Beswick:

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BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for George Daniel of Beswick:

1.	1878  Alexander B. Grosart, Introduction in Daniel, Poems (1878) 1:vi-xix.

AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(commentary records)

1.	1646  Rev. John Donne:   George Daniel of Beswick, in "Vindication of Poesie" 1646; Poems, ed. Grosart (1878) 1:29.
2.	1646  Michael Drayton:   George Daniel of Beswick, in "Vindication of Poesie" in Poems, ed. Grosart (1878) 1:28-29.
3.	1646  Sir Thomas Overbury:   George Daniel of Beswick, in "Vindication of Poetry" (1646); Poems, ed. Grosart (1878) 1:30-31.