CRITICISM

Eldridge, Muriel T. Thomas Campion: His Poetry and Music (1567-1620). New York: Vantage Press, 1971, 165 p.

Considers Campion primarily as a composer of airs and places his work in this genre in a historical context.

Hart, Joan. “Introduction.” In Ayres & Observations: Selected Poems of Thomas Campion, edited by Joan Hart, pp. 7-24. Cheshire: Fyfield Books/Carcanet Press, 1976.

Summarizes Campion's life and analyzes his major works.

Kastendieck, Miles Merwin. England's Musical Poet: Thomas Campion. New York: Russell & Russell, 1963, 203 p.

Examines the inter-relationship between Campions's works as a poet, musician, and composer.

Loughlin, Marie H. “‘Love's Friend and Stranger to Virginitie’: The Politics of the Virginal Body in Ben Jonson's Hymenaei and Thomas Campion's The Lord Hay's Masque.” ELH 63, no. 4 (Winter 1996): 833-49.

Compares how Johnson and Campion's masques portray the virginal body, an important, politically significant idea in post-Elizabethan England.

Additional coverage of Campion's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography Before 1660; DISCovering Authors: Poets Module; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 58 and 172; and Literature Resource Center.