Значение слова CHURCHYARD в Литературной энциклопедии

CHURCHYARD

THOMAS (1520?-1604).-Poet and miscellaneous writer, began life as a page to the Earl of Surrey, and subsequently passed through many vicissitudes as a soldier in Scotland, Ireland, France, and the Low Countries. He was latterly a hanger-on at Court, and had a pension of eighteenpence a day from Queen Elizabeth, which was not, however, regularly paid. He wrote innumerable pamphlets and broadsides, and some poems, of which the best are _Shore's Wife_ (1563), _The Worthiness of Wales_ (1587) _repub._ by the Spenser Society (1871), and _Churchyard's Chips_ (1575), an autobiographical piece.

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