FLETCHER, Giles, brother of the preceding, and of whom also few memorials remain, was born in the year 1558. He was bred at Cambridge, and died at his living at Aldenston in Suffolk, in the year 1623. He is principally known as the author of Christ's Victory and Triumph over and after Death, a poem characterized by a tone of enthusiasm peculiarly solemn. Like his brother, he was an imitator of Spencer, and, with the diction of the latter slightly modernized, he retains much of his melody and luxuriant expression. Giles Fletcher, there can be no doubt, is inferior both to Spencer and Milton, but he frequently reminds us of both; and it seems evident that the latter was indebted to him for hints, particularly with reference to Paradise Regained; and some of the finest parts of Paradise Lost appear likewise to have been suggested by passages in Christ's Victory and Triumph. Although in several parts rather fantastical and quaint, that poem is a fine effusion of genius, and one of the best productions of the kind in the language.