Stephen Hawes

Stephen Hawes, (flourished 1502?21), poet and courtier who served King Henry VII of England and was a follower of the devotional poet John Lydgate. Hawes' great worlc is The Pastime of Pleasure, or the Histor�e of Graunde Amoure and La Be��e Pucel, written in or about 1506, and first printed in 1509. Hawes?s main work is a long allegorical poem, The Passetyme of Pleasure, the chief theme of which is the education and pilgrimage through life of the knight Graunde Amoure.

1502 - 1521