Значение слова MARKHAM в Литературной энциклопедии

MARKHAM

GERVASE (1568?-1637).-Translator and miscellaneous writer, served as a soldier in the Low Countries and Ireland. Retiring into civil life about 1593 he displayed extraordinary industry as a translator, compiler, and original writer. Among his original writings are a poem on the _Revenge_ (1595) (Sir R. Grenville's ship), a continuation of Sidney's _Arcadia_, _The Discourse of Horsemanshippe_ (1593), _The Young Sportsman's Instructor_, _Country Contentments_ (1611), and various books on agriculture; also plays and poems, some of the latter of which are religious.

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