Lyly

Noun

Meaning

English writer noted for his elaborate style (1554-1606)

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By any measure, his poems pale in comparison with those of Sidney, Lyly, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Jonson." Source: Internet

Ben 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

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