He attended Trinity College, Cambridge,[2] and was a tutor for distinguished families, including the two sons of Edward Sulyard of Flemyngs, Essex, and later the children of Henry Grey of Pirgo, also in Essex.
He argued that the dearth of good English poetry since Chaucer's day was not due to lack of poetic ability, or to the poverty of the language, but to the want of a proper system of prosody.
He decried rhyming verse, showed enthusiasm for Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender, and urged the adoption of hexameters and sapphics for English verse[3] He also translated Virgil's first two Eclogues.
1568–1608) is prepended to the 1591 edition of Wilmot's play Tragedie of Tancred and Gismund.
[4] The letter, praising Wilmot for having decided to publish the tragedy, acts as a prefacing endorsement of the play.