Noun
English writer noted for his elaborate style (1554-1606)
Source: WordNetBen Jonson mentions him in the same breath as Christopher Marlowe (with whom, in London, Kyd at one time shared a room) and John Lyly in the Shakespeare First Folio. Source: Internet
Black, 239. The first signs of a new literary movement had appeared at the end of the second decade of Elizabeth's reign, with John Lyly 's Euphues and Edmund Spenser 's The Shepheardes Calender in 1578. Source: Internet