Richard Brathwait
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Richard Brathwait (or Brathwaite, Braithwaite) (1588 – 4 May 1673) was an English poet.
Life
Brathwait was born at Burnishead, near Kendal. He entered Oriel College, Oxford in 1604, and remained there for some years, pursuing the study of poetry and Roman history. He moved to Cambridge to study law at the university and afterwards to London to the Inns of Court. His father, Thomas, died in 1610, and Brathwait went down to live on the estate he inherited.[1] He was married[2] at Hurworth in County Durham, 4 May 1617, to Frances, daughter of James Lawson, of Nesham Abbey.
In 1633 his wife died, and in 1639 he married again. His only son by this second marriage, Sir Strafford Brathwait, was killed at sea.[1] Brathwait is believed to have served with the Royalist army in the Civil War.
He was the author of many works of very unequal merit, of which the best known is Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys, which records his pilgrimages through England in rhymed Latin (said by Southey to be the best of modern times), and doggerel English verse. The English Gentleman (1631) and English Gentlewoman are in a much more decorous strain. Other works are The Golden Fleece (1611) (poems), The Poet's Willow, A Strappado for the Devil (a satire), and Art Asleepe, Husband?
His 1613 book The Yong Mans Gleanings contains the first known use of the word "computer"; he used the word to refer to an "Template:Linktext".[3]
An extract from both Drunken Barnaby and his “epitaph to Frances, (his wife)” appears in The Bishoprick Garland by (Sir) Cuthbert Sharp.
Notes
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References
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Further reading
External links
- Richard Brathwait at PoemHunter
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- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
- 1588 births
- 1673 deaths
- English male poets
- Geordie songwriters
- 17th-century English poets