The son of a clergyman, Charles Fitzgeffrey was born in Fowey, Cornwall, attended Broadgates Hall (Pembroke College) Oxford (B.A. 1597, M.A. 1600) and was Rector of St. Dominick, Cornwall (1603-37). He was an acquaintance of John Davies of Hereford and Francis Rous (who has a commendatory poem in Fitzgeffrey's Drake). Commendatory verses by Fitzgeffrey appears in Davies of Hereford's Microcosmos (1603), Sylvester's Du Bartas (1605) and William Vaughan's Golden Grove (1608).
TEXT RECORDS:
1596Sir Francis Drake.
1601Ad Edmundum Spenserum.
1601Ad Samuelum Danielum.
1601De Bromo Oenopola.
1601De eodum [Spenser.]
1601Edmondo Spencero.
1601In eiusdem Tumulum Chaucere vincinum Westmonast.
PUBLICATIONS:
Sir Francis Drake. 1596.
Caroli Fitzgeofridi affaniae: sive epigrammatum libri tres, Cenotaphia. 1601.
Death's sermon unto the living. 1620.
Elisha his lamentation for his owne ... the subject of a sermon. 1622.
The curse of corne-hoarders: with the blessing of seasonable selling. 1631.
The blessed birthday celebrated. 1634.
Compassion towards captives. 1637.
God's blessing upon the providers of corn. 1648.
Poems, ed. A. B. Grosart. 1881.
PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:
English
Anglican
Pembroke College Oxford
Bachelor of Arts
Master of Arts
clergyman
poet
Thomas Campion
John Davies of Hereford
Henry Fitzgeffrey
Michael Drayton
Francis Rous the Elder
Joshua Sylvester
Sir William Vaughan
REFERENCE:
DNB; NCBEL.
Edward Phillips, Theatrum Poetarum (1675); Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses (1690-91; 1721); Samuel Egerton Brydges, Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum (1800); Joseph Ritson, Bibliographia Poetica (1802) 205-06; Thomas Park, "The Blessed Birth-Day" Censura Literaria 6 (1806) 234-36; Alexander Chalmers, General Biographical Dictionary (1812-17); Thomas Park, in British Bibliographer 2 (1812) 116-21; Bliss, Athenae Oxonienses (1815); Nathan Drake, in Shakespeare and his Times (1817; 1838); Thomas Campbell, Specimens of the British Poets (1819); Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica (1824); Edward Farr, Select Poetry, chiefly sacred, of the Reign of King James the First (1847); Boase and Courtney, Bibliotheca Cornubiensis (1874-82) 1:148-50; Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); Foster, Alumni Oxon (1887-91); Wright, in West-Country Poets (1896); G. C. Moore Smith, "Fitzgeffrey: Poet and Divine" Modern Language Review 15 (1919); Cummings, Spenser: The Critical Heritage (1971); Saunders, Renaissance Poets (1983); Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database (1995).
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