Background
He was the younger son of Giles Fletcher the Elder (minister to Elizabeth I), and the brother of the poet Phineas Fletcher, and cousin of the dramatist John Fletcher.
He was the younger son of Giles Fletcher the Elder (minister to Elizabeth I), and the brother of the poet Phineas Fletcher, and cousin of the dramatist John Fletcher.
Trinity College; Westminster School. University of Warwick.
Educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he remained in Cambridge after his ordination, becoming Reader in Greek Grammar in 1615 and Reader in Greek Language in 1618. In 1619 left to become rector of Alderton in Suffolk. His principal work has the full title Christ"s Victorie and Triumph, in Heaven, in Earth, over and after Death, and consists of four cantos.
The meter is an eight-line stanza in the style of Spenser.
The first five lines rhyme ababb, and the stanza concludes with a rhyming triplet. Milton borrowed liberally from Christ"s Victory and Triumph in Paradise Regained.