Francis Beaumont was a dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre, most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher.
Beaumont was the son of Sir Francis Beaumont of Grace Dieu, near Thringstone in Leicestershire, a justice of the common pleas. He was born at the family seat and was educated at Broadgates Hall (now Pembroke College, Oxford) at age thirteen. Following the death of his father in 1598, he left university without a degree and followed in his father's footsteps by entering the Inner Temple in London in 1600.
Accounts suggest that Beaumont did not work long as a lawyer. He became a student of poet and playwright Ben Jonson ; he was also acquainted with Micheal Drayton and other poets and dramatists, and decided that was where his passion lay. His first work, Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, appeared in 1602. The 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica describes the work as "not on the whole discreditable to a lad of eighteen, fresh from the popular love-poems of
Poems by this Poet
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To my Dear Friend M. Ben Jonson, on his Fox | 31 July 2013 |
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Lovers Rejoice! | 19 May 2014 |
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True Beauty | 3 June 2013 |
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To my Friend M. Ben Jonson, upon his Catiline | 31 July 2013 |
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More pleasing were these sweet delights | 19 May 2014 |
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The Indifferent | 3 June 2013 |
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To my Friend Mr. John Fletcher, upon his Faithful Sheperdess | 31 July 2013 |
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Fit Only for Apollo | 19 May 2014 |
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A Funeral Elegy on the Death of The Lady Penelope Clifton | 30 July 2013 |
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Upon the Silent Woman | 31 July 2013 |
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