John Lyly

He was sent to the Merchant Taylor School and afterwards to Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1577.

Of his career at the university we know almost nothing except that among his fellow students were John Lilly, destined to exert a powerful influence on his style, and George Peele, later to become a dramatist of note, to whom Lodge may to some extent have owed his subsequent interest in the drama.

Early Work After leaving Oxford, Lodge returned to London and entered the Society of Lincoln's Inn, in other words, took up the study of the law.

Legal studies seem not to have absorbed his attention to the total exclusion of literary work.

Nor was Lodge more original in his manner than in his matter.

His style is that of the Euphuists.

John Lilly's Euphuis, or The Anatomy of Wit, 1579, and its sequel, Euphuis and His England, 1580, had set a fashion that was destined for the next two decades to enjoy a tremendous vogue.

Lilly's was the first conspicuous example in English of the attempt to achieve an ornate and rather fantastic style.

He was sent to the Merchant Taylor School and afterwards to Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1577.

Of his career at the university we know almost nothing, except that among his fellow students were John Lilly, destined to exert a powerful influence on his style, and George Peele, later to become a dramatist of note, to whom Lodge may to some extent have owed his subsequent interest in the drama.

Early Work After leaving Oxford, Lodge returned to London and entered the Society of Lincoln's Inn, in other words, took up the study of the law.

Legal study seemed not to have absorbed his attention to the total exclusion of literary work.

Nor was Lodge more original in his manner than in his matter.

His style is that of the Euphuists.

John Lilly's Euphuis, or the Anatomy of Wit, 1579, and its sequel Euphuis and his England, 1580, had set a fashion that was destined for the next two decades to enjoy a tremendous vogue.

Lilly's was the first conspicuous example in English of the attempt to achieve an ornate and rather fantastic style.

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Cupid and My Campaspe: A Peleus Song by John Lyly.

Read for LibriVox.org by Elaine Conway, England.

Cupid and my Campaspe played at cards for kisses.