Thomas Campion: Lyrick-Doctor in Physicke

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The fame of Thomas Campion was interred with him in 1620. Called by Kastendieck the finest poet-musician of the Elizabethan period, he was ranked by his peers with Philip Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Shakespeare and was known widely as a Doctor in Physicke. His ayres—terse musical poems either erotic or patently religious—represent the most significant efforts of his era to break away from madrigals and repetitive rhyming which were the standard 16th-century musical and poetic forms. A unique musical theoretician whose works were neglected for nearly three centuries, Campion today remains at best a comfortably obscure poet in literary anthologies, unmentioned in texts of medical history and musically unaccredited. Well into his ayre-writing career, he had come reluctantly to the study of medicine as his personal fortune dwindled and he required a legitimate source of income. Thomas Campion was born in Hertfordshire in 1567, the only son of litigious minor

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