Editing Samuel Daniel (section)

{{Short description|English poet and playwright (1562–1619)}}
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| name = Samuel Daniel
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| caption = Engraved likeness from the [[Book frontispiece|frontispiece]] for ''The Civil Wars'' (1609) by [[Thomas Cockson]]
| birth_date = 1562
| birth_place = [[Somerset]], England
| death_date = October 1619
| death_place = [[Beckington]], England
| resting_place = [[St George's Church, Beckington]] (buried 14 October 1619)
| occupation = [[Poet]], [[playwright]], and [[historian]]
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| education = Magdalen Hall (now [[Hertford College]]), [[University of Oxford|Oxford]]
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| period = Late-[[Elizabethan era|Elizabethan]] and early-[[Jacobean era|Jacobean]] eras
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| notable_works = {{unbulleted list|''Delia''|''The Complaint of Rosamond''|''The Tragedy of Cleopatra''|''The Civil Wars''|''[[Musophilus]]''|''A Defence of Rhyme''}}
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| relatives = [[John Danyel]] (brother)
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| years_active = 1585–1619
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'''Samuel Daniel''' (1562–1619) was an [[England|English]] [[poet]], [[playwright]] and [[historian]] in the late-[[Elizabethan era|Elizabethan]] and early-[[Jacobean era|Jacobean]] eras. He was an innovator in a wide range of literary genres. His best-known works are the [[sonnet]] cycle ''Delia'', the [[epic poetry|epic poem]] ''The Civil Wars Between the Houses of Lancaster and York'', the dialogue in verse ''[[Musophilus]]'', and the essay on English [[poetry]] ''A Defence of Rhyme''. He was considered one of the preeminent authors of his time and his works had a significant influence on contemporary writers, including [[William Shakespeare]]. Daniel's writings continued to influence authors for centuries after his death, especially the [[Romantic poetry|Romantic]] poets [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] and [[William Wordsworth]]. [[C. S. Lewis]] called Daniel "the most interesting man of letters" whom the sixteenth century produced in England.