| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Breton, Nicholas |
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(br t´ n) (KEY) , 1551?–c.1623, English author, a prolific and versatile writer of verse and prose. His best work, written in a lyrical and pastoral vein, appeared in The Arbor of Amorous Devices (1597), England’s Helicon (1600), and The Passionate Shepherd (1604). | 1 | | See his poems (ed. with biography by J. Robertson, 1952); A Mad World My Masters and Other Prose Works (ed. by U. Kentish-Wright, 1929). | 2 |
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