George Gascoigne foi um poeta inglês. Era o filho mais velho de Sir John Gascoigne de Cardington, Bedfordshire.
Estudou no Trinity College de Cambridge, tendo trabalhado como advogado. Esteve na prisão por dívidas. Ingressou no Parlamento em representação de Bedford, Bedfordshire em 1557-1558 e 1558-1559.
Wikipedia
“Suffiseth this to proove my theame withall,
That every bullet hath a lighting place.”
"The Fruites of Warre", line 467, from The Posies (1575); p. 412.
"The Lullabie of a Lover", line 1; p. 272.
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Thomas Nashe, Preface to Robert Greene's Menaphon (1589), cited from G. Gregory Smith (ed.) Elizabethan Critical Essays (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1904) vol. 1, p. 315.
Criticism
“Full many wanton babes have I,
Which must be stilld with lullabie.”
"The Lullabie of a Lover", line 7; p. 272.
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G. W. Pigman III, in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) vol. 21, p. 585.
Criticism
"Gascoignes Good Morrow", line 41; p. 287.
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"Certayne Notes of Instruction Concerning the Making of Verse or Ryme in English", from The Posies; pp. 457-8.