Thomas Drant
Thomas Drant (c.1540–1578) was an English clergyman and poet. Work of his on
Life
The son of Thomas Drant, he was born at Hagworthingham in Lincolnshire. He matriculated as pensioner of St John's College, Cambridge, 18 March 1558, proceeded B.A. 1561, was admitted fellow of his college 21 March 1561, and commenced M.A. 1564.[5] On the occasion of Queen Elizabeth's visit to the university in August 1564 he composed copies of English, Latin, and Greek verses, which he presented to her majesty. At the commencement in 1565 he performed a public exercise (printed in his Medicinable Morall) on the theme 'Corpus Christi non est ubique.'
He was the domestic chaplain to
On Easter Tuesday 1570 he preached a sermon at
Works
Drant is the author of:
- Impii cuiusdem Epigrammatis qvod edidit Richardus Shacklockus . . . Apomaxis. Also certayne of the special articles of the Epigramme, refuted in Englyshe, 1565, Latin and English. Against Richard Shacklock.
- A Medicinable Morall, that is, the two Bookes of Horace his Satyres Englyshed. ... The wailyngs of the prophet Hieremiah, done into Englyshe verse. Also epigrammes, 1566. Some copies have at the back of the title a dedicatory inscription, 'To the Right Honorable my Lady Bacon, and my Lady Cicell, sisters, fauourers of learnyng and vertue.' Among the miscellaneous pieces that follow the translation of Jeremiah are the English and Latin verses that Drant presented to the queen on her visit to Cambridge in 1564, English verses to the Earl of Leicester, and Latin verses to Chancellor Cecil.
- Horace his arte of Poetrie, epistles, and Satyrs, Englished and to the Earle of Ormounte, by Tho. Drant, addressed, 1567.
- Greg. Nazianzen his Epigrams and Spiritual Sentences, 1568.
- Two Sermons preached, the one at S. Maries Spittle on Tuesday in Easter weeke 1570, and the other at the Court of Windsor . . . the viij of January . . . 1569. n. d. [1570?].
- A fruitful and necessary Sermon specially concernyng almes geving, n. d. [1572 ?], preached at St. Mary Spittle on Easter Tuesday 1572.
- In Solomonis regis Ecclesiastem . . . paraphrasis poetica, 1572, dedicated to Sir Thomas Heneage.
- Thomse Drantae Angli Advordingamii Praesul. Ejusdem Sylva, undated, but published not earlier than 1576, There are Latin verses to Queen Elizabeth, Grindal, Matthew Parker, Lord Buckhurst, and others, and on pp. 85–6 are verses in Drant's praise by James Sandford in Greek, Latin, Italian, and French.
Commendatory Latin verses by Drant are prefixed to
Notes
- ^ Katherine Duncan-Jones, Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet (1991), p. 191.
- ^ "The Edmund Spenser Home Page: Biography". Archived from the original on 2 January 2012. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
- ^ Lori Chamberlain, Gender and the Metaphorics of Translation, p. 310, in Lawrence Venuti (editor), The Translation Studies Reader (2004).
- ^ Peter France, The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation (2000), p. 523.
- ^ "Drant, Thomas (DRNT557T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Natalie Mears, Queenship and Political Discourse in the Elizabethan Realms (2005), p. 127.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bullen, Arthur Henry (1888). "Drant, Thomas". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 16. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 1–2.