Giles Fletcher the Elder

In today's Claire Chats I talk about the life, career and legacy of Giles Fletcher the Elder, poet, diplomat and Member of Parliament.

Here are some links to the works of Giles and his sons:

• Giles Fletcher the Elder – Licia sonnets - http://www.poemhunter.com/giles-fletcher-the-elder-2/poems/
• Giles Fletcher the Elder - “Of the Russe Common Wealth...” - https://archive.org/
• Giles Fletcher the Elder - http://www.amazon.com/English-Works-Giles-Fletcher-Elder/dp/0299033708
• Phineas Fletcher – The Purple Island - http://www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/island/
• Phineas Fletcher - A fathers testament - http://quod.lib.umich.edu/
• The Poetical Works of Giles Fletcher and Phineas Fletcher – see The Locusts at https://books.google.es/
• Giles Fletcher the Younger - Christ's Victory and Triumph - https://archive.org/

Sources and Further Reading

• Munro, Lucy. “Fletcher, Giles, the elder (bap. 1546, d. 1611).” Lucy Munro In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
• Stanwood, P. G.. “Fletcher, Phineas (1582–1650).” P. G. Stanwood In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
• Stanwood, P. G.. “Fletcher, Giles, the younger (1585/6–1623).” P. G. Stanwood In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
• Stout, Felicity Jane (2015) Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan Commonwealth: The Muscovy Company and Giles Fletcher, the Elder (1546-1611), Manchester University Press.