FAIRFAX (Edward), natural son of Sir Thomas Fairfax, was an English poet who lived in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. and dedicated a translation of Tasso to the former. The last account we have of him is in the year 1631, but the time of his death is uncertain. He wrote several poetical pieces, and was an accomplished genius. Dryden introduces Fairfax with Spencer, as the leading writers of the times; and even seems to give the preference to the former in the way of harmony, when he observes that Waller owned himself indebted for the harmony of his numbers to Fairfax's Godfrey of Boulogne.