Harvey, Gabriel (c. 1545-1630)

English poet and critic. His views on literature led him to attack the dramatist Robert Greene in Four Letters and Certain Sonnets (1592), and to conduct an acrimonious controversy with dramatist and satirist Thomas Nashe, to which he contributed Four Letters (1592) and Pierce's Supererogation (1593). He was a lifelong friend of the poet Edmund Spenser.

He was born at Saffron Walden, Essex, and educated at Christ's College, Cambridge.