William Smith (poet)

William Smith (15??-16??) was an English poet who published a sonnet sequence entitled Chloris in 1596. Nothing is known about his life except that he moved in the circles of Edmund Spenser, whom he considered a mentor and to whom he dedicated Chloris, and Sir Philip Sidney, to whose sister he dedicated at least one and possibly two poems preserved only in manuscripts.

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