| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Campion, Thomas |
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| 1567–1620, English poet, composer, and lutenist, a physician by profession. Campion wrote lyric poems that he and other composers set to music. His graceful, simple lute songs were published in five Books of Airs (1601–1617). He wrote a treatise on English poetry, condemning the use of rhyme, but he used rhyme freely in his own poems. His treatise A New Way of Making Fowre Parts in Counterpoint (1613) has often been republished. | 1 | | See biographies by D. Lindley (1986) and W. R. Davis (1987). | 2 |
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