Education
Studied at Cambridge and Gray's Inn.
Studied at Cambridge and Gray's Inn.
After serving as a soldier in Normandy in 1591, he published Latin epigrams and elegies in 1595. He wrote both words and music for A Book of Airs (1601) with his friend Philip Rosseter, and in Observations in the Art of English Poesie (1602) he gave examples of classical quantitative meters in English verse. Having qualified as Doctor of Medicine at Caen in 1605, he practiced medicine in London until his death on Mar. 1, 1620, in St. Dunstan's in the West. Campion wrote three wedding masques produced at court. His Latin verse, collected in 1619, was admired during his lifetime, but his modern fame rests on the beautiful poetry and music in his several books of songs, which have rarely been equaled in English lyric poetry.