Song by Elizabeth I’s court musician is a lullaby in praise of sleep – but might it also be an elegy written ahead of time?
, who, after increasingly poor health, died in 1603, the year of the book’s publication. Obituaries are written in advance, so why not an elegy? And perhaps some would argue it’s not an elegy at all, but a lullaby in praise of sleep. Whatever its origins, Dowland’s song seems charged with personal emotion.
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