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4 unusual facts about Angel Day


1587 in poetry

Angel Day, Daphnis and Chloe, prose and poetry; a translation from the French of Jacques Amyot

1588 in poetry

Angel Day, Daphnis and Chloe, prose and poetry, translated from the French of Jacques Amyot

Angel Day

Angel Day was an Elizabethan rhetorician and scholar chiefly known for his The English Secretary (1586), the first comprehensive epistolary manual to employ original English rather than classical models.

The English Secretary

The English Secretary, by Angel Day, was the most important manual for the art of letter writing during the almost fifty years of its first ten + editions (1586–1635).



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