Edward Dyer

Edward Dyer

Sir Edward Dyer (October 1543 – May 1607) was an English courtier and poet.

The son of Sir Thomas Dyer, Kt., he was born at Sharpham Park, Somerset. He was educated, according to Anthony Wood, either at Balliol College, Oxford or at Broadgates Hall (later Pembroke College, Oxford), but left without taking a degree. After some time abroad, he appeared at Elizabeth I's court. His first patron was Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, who seems to have thought of putting him forward as a rival to Sir Christopher Hatton for the queen's favour. He is mentioned by Gabriel Harvey, along with Sir Philip Sidney, as one of the ornaments of the court. Sidney in his will bequeathed his books equally between Fulke Greville and Dyer.

He was employed by Elizabeth on a mission (1584) to the Low Countries, and in 1589 was sent to Denmark. In a commission to inquire into manors unjustly alienated from the crown in the west country he did not altogether please the queen, but nevertheless received a grant of some forfeited lands in Somerset in 1588. He was knighted and made chancellor of the Order of the Garter in 1596. William Oldys said of him that he "would not stoop to fawn," and some of his verses seem to show that he disliked the pressures of life at court. He was buried at St Saviour's, Southwark, on 11 May 1607 (21 May N.S.)

Wood says that many thought Dyer to be a Rosicrucian, and that he was a firm believer in alchemy. He had a great reputation as a poet among his contemporaries, but very little of his work has survived. George Puttenham, in the "Arte of English Poesie" speaks of "Maister Edward Dyar, for Elegie most sweete, solempne, and of high conceit." One of the poems universally accepted as his is "My Mynde to me a kingdome is." Among the poems in "England's Helicon" (1600), signed S.E.D., and included in Dr A.B. Grosart's collection of Dyer's works ("Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies Library", vol. iv, 1876) is the charming pastoral "My Phillis hath the morninge sunne," but this comes from the "Phillis" of Thomas Lodge. Grosart also prints a prose tract entitled "The Prayse of Nothing" (1585). The "Sixe Idillia" from Theocritus, reckoned by John Payne Collier among Dyer's works, were dedicated to, not written by, him.

In 1943 Alden Brooks proposed Sir Edward Dyer as a candidate in the Shakespearean authorship question in his book "Will Shakspere and the Dyer’s Hand". [Alden Brooks - "Will Shakspere and the Dyer's Hand". New York, Scribner, 1943.]

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