King, Henry

King, Henry

▪ English poet
baptized Jan. 16, 1592, Worminghall, Buckinghamshire, Eng.
died Sept. 30, 1669, Chichester, Sussex

      English poet and Anglican bishop whose elegy for his wife is considered one of the best in the English language.

      Educated at Oxford, King received numerous and remunerative preferments. A friend and an executor of the estate of John Donne, his poetry was as much influenced by Ben Jonson as by Donne. King became bishop of Chichester in 1642, but his estate was sequestered during the interregnum and he spent the time until the Restoration (1660) in restless retirement with friends and relations. The collection Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes, and Sonets (1657), bearing his name, was not prepared by him and included poems of others. The standard modern edition is that of Margaret Crum (1965).

Additional Reading
Ronald Berman, Henry King & the Seventeenth Century (1964).

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