Thomas Campion (1567–1620)
Author of The Works of Thomas Campion
About the Author
A practicing physician and musician throughout his life, Thomas Campion wrote poetry, songs, masques, and a treatise on music and poetry. His lyrics possess rare charm and freshness, as well as a melodiousness and metrical variety that reflect their musical origin. In his introduction to Campion's show more collected works, Walter R. Davis wrote, "Campion's pursuit of the movements of sound is recorded in that strange but subtle treatise, Observations in the Art of English Poesie (1602), and its fruits are preserved in his songbooks. He is a poet-perhaps the poet-of the auditory rather than the visual imagination. He offers us experiences that strike the ear." (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Thomas Campion
Campion's Works 5 copies
Ayres 3 copies
A New Way of Making Fowre Parts in Counterpoint/Rules How to Compose (Music Theory in Britain, 1500-1700: Critical… (2003) 2 copies
Song Tune 1 copy
First Book of Airs. Circa 1613. (The English School of Lutenist Song Writers. Second Series.) 1 copy
Songs 1 copy
Fifty songs 1 copy
Lute songs 1 copy
Rose-cheeked Laura 1 copy
The Caversham Entertainment 1 copy
Associated Works
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost (2004) — Contributor — 1,110 copies, 3 reviews
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 958 copies, 7 reviews
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contributor — 469 copies, 1 review
English Renaissance Poetry: A Collection of Shorter Poems from Skelton to Jonson (New York Review Books Classics) (1963) — Contributor — 166 copies
Court Masques: Jacobean and Caroline Entertainments, 1605-1640 (World's Classics) (1995) — Author, some editions — 69 copies
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 3: Intelligent Family Living (1967) — Contributor — 33 copies
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 4: The World Around Us (1968) — Contributor — 29 copies
Speculum Amantis: Love Poems from Rare Song Books and Miscellanies of the Seventeenth Century (2007) — Contributor — 5 copies
An English garner : ingatherings from our history and literature — Contributor, some editions — 4 copies
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- Canonical name
- Campion, Thomas
- Other names
- Campian, Thomas
- Birthdate
- 1567-02-12
- Date of death
- 1620-03-01
- Burial location
- The Guild Church of St Dunstan-in-the-West, London, England, UK
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Country (for map)
- England, UK
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
- Place of death
- London, England, UK
- Cause of death
- plague
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
- Education
- University of Cambridge (Peterhouse)
Gray's Inn
University of Caen (MD|1605) - Occupations
- poet
composer
physician
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- Works
- 62
- Also by
- 22
- Members
- 209
- Popularity
- #106,076
- Rating
- 4.1
- Reviews
- 11
- ISBNs
- 24
- Languages
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Loe here I burne in such desire
That all the teares that I can straine
Out of mine idle empty braine
Cannot allay my scorching paine.
Come Trent, and Humber, and fayre Thames,
Dread Ocean, haste with all thy streames:
And, if you cannot quench my fire,
O drowne both mee and my desire.
Fire,fire,fire,fire!
There is no hell to my desire:
See, all the Rivers backward flye,
And th' Ocean doth his waves deny,
For feare my heate should drinke them dry.
Come, heav'nly showres, then, pouring downe;
Come, you that once the world did drowne:
Some then you spar'd, but now save all,
That else must burne, and with mee fall.
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