Wilton House The Wilton Circle were an influential group of 16th-century English poets, led by Mary Sidney . They were based at Wilton House , Wiltshire , which was run by the half-brother of Walter Raleigh . Sidney turned Wilton into a "paradise for poets", and the circle included Edmund Spenser , Michael Drayton , Sir John Davies , Abraham Fraunce , and Samuel Daniel .
They are described as "the most important and influential literary circle in English history"[ 1] [ 2]
See also
Areopagus , a similar group centered around Mary's brother, Philip Sidney
References
^ "Mary Sidney Herbert" . The Shakespearean Authorship Trust . Retrieved 3 June 2010 .^ Hannay, Margaret P. (1990). Philip's Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke . Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 106– 142. ISBN 0-19-505779-1
