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16th/17th-century English poet and playwright

Barnabe Barnes (c.

1571 – 1609) was an English poet. He is known for his Petrarchan love sonnets and for his combative personality, involving feuds with other writers and culminating in an alleged attempted murder.

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Early life

The third son of Dr Richard Barnes, bishop of Durham, he was baptised in York at the church of St Michael le Belfry on 6 March 1571. In 1586 he was entered at Brasenose College, Oxford, but did not take his degree.

His father died in 1587 leaving two-thirds of his estate to be divided among his six children, and Barnes appears to have been able to live on income from this bequest.^[1] In 1591 he went to France with the earl of Essex, who was then serving against the prince of Parma.

On his return he published Parthenophil and Parthenophe, Sonnettes, Madrigals,