– 1623 in Alderton, Suffolk) was an English cleric and poet chiefly known for his long allegorical poem Christ's Victory and Triumph (1610).
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.
Fletcher enjoyed the patronage of the Puritan philanthropist Anne Townshend at or before 1623.
[2] 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.
[3] Milton borrowed liberally from Christ's Victory and Triumph in Paradise Regained.