Robert Pinsky has asserted that this work is comparable in force of imagination to John Donne.
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Andrea McCrea sees the influence of Justus Lipsius in the Letter to an Honourable Lady, but elsewhere detects a scepticism more akin to Michel de Montaigne.
It is addressed to Fulke Greville, and written, with much sententious melody, in a sort of terza rima, or, more properly, ottava rima with the couplet omitted.
Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke | George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick | Fulke Greville | Edmond T. Gréville | Francis Greville, 5th Earl of Warwick | Ronald Greville | Robert Kaye Greville | Greville Starkey | Greville MacDonald | Greville Howard, Baron Howard of Rising | Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke | Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick | Daisy Greville | Arthur Greville Collins |
Fulke Greville, Sir William Alexander, and Mary Sidney wrote closet dramas in the age of Shakespeare and Jonson.
Camden's authority in heraldry of which the 1594 Britannia provided convincing evidence, together with his association with the advocates of armorial reform (Fulke Greville, Sir Edward Hoby, and Baron Burghley as well as the queen) made him a logical choice, over Ralph Brooke, for elevation to Clarenceux King of Arms in October 1597.
He was the son and heir of Sir John Conway of Arrow, and his wife Ellen or Eleanor, daughter of Sir Fulke Greville of Beauchamp's Court, Warwickshire.
She was the daughter of Fulke Greville, 5th Baron Brooke and his wife Sarah Dashwood, and a descendant of the Earl of Bedford.