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Charles Cotton
(1630-87)
English writer, born of his father's estate of
Beresford in Staffordshire. His father was a warm
friend of Ben Johnson, Selden, John Donne and
other illustrious men. The boy traveled on the
Continent, and early wrote verses which were circulated
privately. In 1656 he married his cousin Isabella,
half-sister of the regicide John Hutchinson (1615-64).
Though a sincere loyalist, he seems to have lived
securely enough under the Commonwealth, and the
decay of his father's estate was due mainly to
unprosperous lawsuits. In 1664 he issued anonymously
his burlesque poem, Scarronides, or the
First Book of Virgil Travestie, added to
in later editions in grossness as well as in bulk.
Later works are his Voyage to Ireland in Burlesque
(1670), Burlesque upon Burlesque (1675),
Planter's Manual (1675), and a treatise
on fly-fishing contributed in 1676 to the fifth
edition of Walton's Compleat Angler. He
also published a masterly translation of Montaigne's
Essays (1685).
>>Source: E.R. Miner, The Cavalier
Mode from Honson to Cotton (1973)
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