Robert Wever

1550 · 1 work on Laurel, 12 lines, all free to read

A sixteenth-century English woodcut of the coronation of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, with the Tudor rose and the pomegranate.
A sixteenth-century English woodcut of the coronation of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, with the Tudor rose and the pomegranate.

Robert Wever was an English poet and dramatist of the sixteenth century (floruit c. 1550) about whom little biographical information seems to have survived. His name is often given as Richard Wever or simply R. Wever. An Enterlude called lusty Juventus, an interlude, attributed to him, was published in 1565.

The poem In Youth is Pleasure (In a herber green asleep whereas I lay...), is a popular and remembered anthology piece, has been several times set to music, and supplied the writer and painter Denton Welch with the title of his second novel.

Biography adapted from the Wikipedia article “Robert Wever”, CC BY-SA. Read it there.

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