Lyly
Noun
Meaning
English writer noted for his elaborate style (1554-1606)
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Examples
By any measure, his poems pale in comparison with those of Sidney, Lyly, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Jonson."
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.
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.