Giles Fletcher the Younger

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Giles Fletcher the Younger was an English Elizabethan poet and clergyman best known for his allegorical religious poem "Christ's Victory and Triumph."

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Giles Fletcher the Younger canonical 4

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instanceOf Elizabethan poet
English poet
clergyman
person
almaMater Trinity College, Cambridge
clergyRole parson of Alderton, Suffolk
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of England
educatedAt Eton College
Trinity College, Cambridge
father Giles Fletcher the Elder
floruit early 17th century
late 16th century
genre allegorical poetry
religious poetry
hasOccupation Anglican priest
hasPart Christ's Triumph after Death
Christ's Triumph over Death
Christ's Victory in Heaven
Christ's Victory on Earth
hasRelative John Fletcher
influencedBy Edmund Spenser
languageOfWorkOrName English
literaryPeriod Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance

Jacobean era
linked to: Stuart period
literaryStyle Spenserian stanza
movement Elizabethan literature
linked to: English Renaissance

Metaphysical poetry
notableFor allegorical treatment of the life and work of Christ
notableWork Christ's Victory and Triumph
Poems on religious themes
occupation clergyman
poet
positionHeld fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
relative Richard Fletcher
religion Christianity
Church of England
sibling Phineas Fletcher
styleCharacteristic complex allegory
elaborate stanza forms
rich imagery
subjectOf studies in English devotional poetry
workLocation Cambridge
Suffolk
wrote Christ's Victory and Triumph

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Giles Fletcher the Elder relative Giles Fletcher the Younger
Giles Fletcher the Elder child Giles Fletcher the Younger
Christ’s Victorie and Triumph author Giles Fletcher the Younger
Phineas Fletcher sibling Giles Fletcher the Younger