Thomas Stanley (1625 - April 12, 1678) was an English author and translator. He was wealthy, married early, and travelled much on the Continent. He was the friend and companion, and at need the helper, of many poets, and was himself both a writer and a translator of verse. He is a transitional figure in English literature. Born into a later generation than that of Waller and Denham, he rejected their reforms, and was the last to cling to the old prosody and forms of fancy. He is the frankest of all English poets in his preference of decadent and Alexandrine schools of imagination. His most serious work was his The History of Philosophy, which appeared in three successive volumes between 1655 and 1661, and the principal authority on the progress of thought in ancient Greece for several generations. He died at his lodgings in Suffolk Street in 1678 at the age of 53 and was buried in the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fileds. | |
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