Surname: Davison Forename(s): Francis b. 1573. d. 1619. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet and anthologist. Son of William and Catherine Davison. Educated at Emmanuel College,
Cambridge. Admitted to Gray’s Inn in 1593. Worked as a playwright, secretary, and
treatise writer, all with little success before publishing his major poetical work.
Author of a volume of poems, A Poetical Rapsody (1602), alongside some translations, treatises, and other poems. Biographical information:
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