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A Short Biography of Francis Quarles

Author Name:

Francis Quarles

Born As:

Francis Quarles

Other Names:

Born:

08 May 1592

Died:

8 Sep 1644




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Selected Works:

A Feast for Wormes - 1620
Hadassa; or the History of Queene Ester - 1621
Job Militant, with Meditations Divine and Moral - 1624
Sions Elegies, wept by Jeremie the Prophet - 1624
Sions Sonets sung by Solomon the King - 1624
The Historic of Samson - 1631
Alphabet of Elegies upon Dr Aylmer - 1625
Argalus and Parthenia - 1629

Four books of Divine Fancies digested into Epigrams, Meditations and Observations - 1632
Alphabet of Elegies as Divine Poems - 1633
Hieroglyphikes of the Life of Man - 1638
Memorials Upon the Death of Sir Robert Quarles, Knight - 1639

Enchyridion - 1640-41
Observations concerning Princes and States upon Peace and Warre - 1642
Boanerges and Barnabas - Wine and Oyle for afflicted Soules - 1644-46

Royalist tracts - 1644
The Loyal Convert - 1644
The Whipper Whip - 1644
The New Distempe -  reissued in one volume in 1645 with the title of The Profest Royalist

Solomon's Recantation - 1645
The Shepheards' Oracles - 1646
A second part of Boanerges and Barnabas - 1646
A broadside entitled A Direfull Anathema against Peace-haters - 1647
The Virgin Widow - 1649.
Emblems - Edinburgh, 1857 was embellished with new illustrations by CH Bennett and WA Rogers These are reproduced in the complete edition - 1874 of Quarles included in the "Chertsey Worthies Library" by Dr AB Grosart, who provides an introductory memoir and an appreciation which greatly overestimates Quarles's value as a poet.                          
Wife Ursula Woodgat, eighteen children.