Life and Work
Henry Willoughby was the second son of a Wiltshire gentleman of the same name, and matriculated from St John's College, Oxford in December 1591 at the age of sixteen. He is probably the same Henry Willoughby who graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Exeter College, Oxford early in 1595. He published Willobie his Avisa in 1594.
Willobie may have died before 30 June 1596, when a new edition of Willobie his Avisa was published with the addition of an "Apologie" by Hadrian Dorrell, a friend of the author, which describes him as "now of late gone to God." Dorrell alleges that he found the manuscript of Willobie his Avisa among his friend's papers, which were left in his charge when Willoughby departed from Oxford on Her Majesty's service. There is no trace of any Hadrian Dorrell in the historical record, and the name may be a pseudonym, perhaps even for Willobie himself. Christopher Hill has suggested that Matthew Roydon may have been the author.
Willobie his Avisa proved extremely popular, and passed through numerous editions. In 1596, Peter Colse produced an imitation named Penelope's Complaint.
Modern sources usually give the date of Henry Willobie's death as 1597x1605.
Read more about this topic: Henry Willobie
Famous quotes containing the words life and/or work:
“The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all.... I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.”
—Eugène Ionesco (b. 1912)
“She remembered home as a place where there were always too many children, a cross man and work piling up around a sick woman.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)