Wotton, Sir Henry

Wotton, Sir Henry

▪ English poet
born March 30, 1568, Boughton Malherbe, Kent, Eng.
died December 1639, Eton, Buckinghamshire

      English poet, diplomat, and art connoisseur who was a friend of the poets John Donne (Donne, John) and John Milton (Milton, John).

      Of his few surviving poems, “You Meaner Beauties of the Night,” written to Elizabeth of Bohemia, is the most famous. Izaak Walton (Walton, Izaak)'s biography of Wotton was prefixed to the Reliquiae Wottonianae (1651), the volume in which most of Wotton's writings first appeared.

      Wotton was knighted in 1604, served as ambassador to Venice intermittently from 1604 to 1623, and was a member of Parliament in 1614 and 1625. In 1624 he became provost of Eton and in 1627 took holy orders.

      Long residence in Venice developed in Wotton a taste for architecture and painting. His The Elements of Architecture (1624) is a landmark volume that helped introduce Italian architectural theories into England (United Kingdom).

Additional Reading
Logan Pearsall Smith, The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, 2 vol. (1907, reissued 1966).

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