Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Stephen Hawes

Born: 1474
Died: 1523 (aged 49)
Bio: Stephen Hawes was a popular English poet during the Tudor period who is now little known.
Known for:
- The minor poems
- The Example of Vertu The Example of Virtue
- The Cõforte of Louers The Comfort of Lovers