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Wither, George

▪ English writer
Wither also spelled  Withers  
born June 11, 1588, Bentworth, Hampshire, Eng.
died May 2, 1667, London

      English poet and Puritan pamphleteer, best remembered for a few songs and hymns.

      Wither entered Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1604 but left in 1606 without a degree. In 1610 he settled in London and in 1615 began to study law. His Abuses Stript and Whipt (1613)—with its satiric treatment of lust, avarice, and pride—gave offense, and he was imprisoned for some months. In prison he wrote The Shepherd's Hunting (1615), whose five eclogues are among his finest verse, looking back to Spenser in form. Fidelia (1615), an elegiac epistle lamenting a lover's inconstancy, contains in later editions the famous lyric “Shall I, wasting in despair.” For Wither's Motto. Nec Habeo, nec Careo, nec Curo (1621; “I Don't Have, I Don't Want, I Don't Care”), an assertion of his own virtue and a lively denunciation of others' vices, he was again imprisoned.

      The eulogy Faire-Virtue, The Mistresse of Phil'Arete and a collection of love and pastoral poems, Juvenilia, appeared in 1622. Afterward his writing became increasingly dominated by Puritanism and focused on religious and political causes. The Hymnes and Songs of the Church (1623) is the first hymnbook in English not based entirely on the Psalms; it contains passages of rugged, simple prose. He was in London during the plague of 1625 and published Britain's Remembrancer (1628), a voluminous poem on the subject, interspersed with invective and prophecy.

      Between taking part in the expedition of Charles I against the Scottish Covenanters and serving on the Parliamentary side in the Civil War, Wither wrote many religious poems and hymns, which were published in 1641 in Haleluiah or, Britans Second Remembrancer. He was imprisoned for several years in the 1660s for an unpublished poem criticizing the new House of Commons.

      Wither's verse has been thought monotonous, but its variety is surprising. In his songs and hymns he blended rustic language and regular rhythm to produce an impressive effect. Although his reputation faded and his name became a synonym for a hack Puritan pamphleteer, he is important in the history of print publication: Fidelia was the first literary text to be published by subscription, and Hymnes and Songs of the Church was the first book in which an author successfully asserted copyright to his own work.

Additional Reading
Wither is discussed in several chapters of Michelle O'Callaghan, The “Shepheards Nation”: Jacobean Spenserians and Early Stuart Political Culture, 1612–1625 (1999).

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