Edmund Spencer

R. M. Cummings

The Period 1579-1600 -- 1 E.K., from The Shepheardes Calender (1579) -- 2 EDMUND SPENSER (1580-90) -- (a) From Three Letters (1580) -- (b) From Two Other Letters (1580) -- (c) The Letter of Ralegh (1590) -- 3 GABRIBL HARVEY (1580-93) -- (a) From the Marginalia (after 1580) -- (b) From Three Letters (1580) -- (c) From Three Letters (1580) -- (d) Commendatory Verses (1590) -- (e) From Four Letters (1592) -- (f ) From Four Letters (1592) -- (g) From Four Letters (1592) -- (h) From Four Letters (1592) -- {i) From A New Letter (1593) -- (j) From Pierces Supererogation (1593) -- (k) From Pierces Supererogation (1593) -- (I) From Pierces Supererogation (1593) -- 4 WILLIAM WEBBE, from A Discourse of English Poetry (1586) -- 5 THOMAS NASHE (1589-96) -- (a) From Greene's Menaphon (1589) -- (b) From Pierce Penilesse (1592) -- (c) From Have With You to Saffron-Waldon (1596) -- 6 GEORGE PUTTENHAM, from The Arte of English Poesie (1589) -- 7 Anonymous commendatory verses (1590) -- 8 H .B., Commendatory verses (1590) -- 9 w.L., Commendatory verses (1590) -- 10 SIR WALTER RALEGH, Commendatory verses (1590) -- 11 R.S., Commendatory verses (1590) -- 12 WILLIAM VALLANS, from A Tale of Two Swannes (1590) -- 13 THOMAS WATSON, from the Elegy on Walsingham (1590) -- 14 JOHN FLORIO, from Florios Second Frutes (1591) -- 15 SIR JOHN HARINGTON (1591, C. 1600) -- (a) From Orlando Furioso (1591) -- (b) From Epigrams (c. 1600) -- 16 SAMUEL DANIEL (1592---99) -- (a) From Delia (1592) -- (b) From Delia and Rosamond Augmented (1594) -- (c) From The Civill Wars (1599) -- (d) From Musophilus (1599) -- (e) From Musophilus (1599) -- 17 THOMAS CHURCHYARD (1593, 1595) -- (a) From Churchyards Challenge (1593) -- (b) From Churchyards Charitie (1595) -- 18 MICHAEL DRAYTON (1593-1627) -- (a) From Idea (1593) -- (b) From Endimion and Phoebe (1595) -- (c) From The Barrons Wars (1603) -- (d) From Poems Lyrick and Pastoral (1605) -- (e) From Poly-Olbion (1612) -- (f) From Poly-Olbion (1612) -- (g) From Poems (1619) -- (h) From Poems (1619) -- (i) From The Epistle to Henry Reynolds (1627) -- 19 THOMAS LODGE (1593, 1596) -- (a) From Phillis (1593) -- (b) From Wits Miserie (1596) -- 20 I.O., from The Lamentation of Troy (1594) -- 21 E.C., from Emaricdulfe (1595) -- 22 WILLIAM COVELL, from Polimanteia (1595) -- 23 THOMAS EDWARDS, three extracts from Cephalus and Procris (1595) -- 24 JOSHUA SYLVESTER (1595, 1605) -- (a) From The First Day (1595) -- (b) From Devine Weekes and Workes (1605) -- 25 CHARLES FITZGEOFFREY, from Sir Francis Drake (1596) -- 26 JOSEPH HALL (1597-c. l6IO) -- (a) From Virgidemiarum (1597) -- (b) From Virgidemiarum (1597) -- (c) From Bedell's A Protestant Memorial (c. 1605) -- (d) Poem on Spenser, Sidney, and Camden (c. 1610) -- 27 RICHARD BARNFIBLD, from Poems (1598) -- 28 RICHARD CAREW (1595, 1598) -- (a) From The Excellencie of the English Tongue (c. 1595) -- (b) From A Herrings Tale (1598) -- 29 FRANCIS MERES, from Palladis Tamia (1598) -- 30 THOMAS SPEGHT, from The Workes of Chaucer (1598) -- 31 JOHN WEEVER (1599-1601) -- (a) From Epigrammes (1599) -- Obituary Verse -- (b) From Faunus and Melliflora (1600) -- (c) From The Mirror of Martyres (1601) -- 32 WILLIAM ALABASTER, from Epigrammata (1600) -- 33 NICHOLAS BRETON, from Melancholike Humours (1600) -- 34 JOHN CHALKHILL, from Thea /ma and Clearchus (c. 1600) -- 35 I.F., from Weever's Faunus and Melliflora (1600) -- 36 HUGH HOLLAND, On Spencer the Poett (c. 1600) -- 37 FRANCIS THYNNE, from Emblemes and Epigrames (1600) -- 38 FRANCIS BEAUMONT, from Poems (after 1600) -- 39 CHARLES FITZGEOFFREY, from Ajfaniae {1601) -- 40 WILLIAM BASSE, from Three Pastoral Elegies (1602) -- 41 JOHN ROSS, from Parerga (c. 1605) -- 42 WILLIAM WARNER, from A Continuance (1606) -- The Period 16oo-1660 -- 43 WILLIAM CAMDEN (1600, 1605) -- (a) From Britannia (1600) -- (b) From Remaines (1605) -- 44 GEORGE DE MALYNES, from Saint George for England (1601) -- 45 From The Return from Parnassus (1602) -- 46 WILLIAM HARBERT, from A Prophesie (1604) -- 47 SIR JOHN ROE, from Epistle to Sir Nicholas Smith (c. 1605) -- 48 LODOWICK BRYSKETT, from A Discourse of Civill Life (1606) -- 49 THOMAS DECKER, from A Knights Conjuring (1607) -- 50 SIR JOHN STRADLING, fromEpigrammatumLibri Quatuor (1607) -- 51 RICHARD NICCOLS, from Englands Eliza (1610} -- 52 HENRY STANFORD, Verses to Lady Hunsdon (1610} -- 53 HENRY PEACHAM, from Graphice (1612} -- 54 RICHARD zoucHE, from The Dove (1613) -- 55 THOMAS FREEMAN, from Rubbe (1614) -- 56 E. JOHNSON, from Browne's Shepheards Pipe (1614) -- 57 JOHN NORDEN, from The Labyrinth of Mans Life (1614) -- 58 TRISTRAM WHITE, from The Martyrdom of Saint George (1614) -- 59 THOMAS COLLINS, from The Teares of Love (1615) -- 60 WILLIAM BROWNE, from Britannia's Pastorals (1616) -- 61 BEN JONSON (1616, 1619) -- (a) From The Golden Age Restored (1616) -- (b) From Conversations with Drummond (1619) -- (c) From Timber (1640) -- 62 From Apollo Christian (1617) -- 63 John Lane (1617, 1621) -- (a) From Guy of Warwick (1617) -- (b) From Tritons Trumphet (1621) -- 64 WILLIAM DRUMMOND, from Heads of a Conversation (1619) -- 65 ROBERT AYLETT, from The Song of Songs (1621) -- 66 ROBERT BURTON, from Anatomy of Melancholy (1621, 1632) -- 67 ALEXANDER GILL, from Logonomia Anglica (1621) -- 68 WILLIAM MASON, from A Handfull of Essaies (1621) -- 69 ROBERT SALTER, from Wonderful Prophedes (1626) -- 70 WILLIAM LISLE, from Virgil's Eclogues (1628} -- 71 sm KENELM DIGBY (1628} -- (a) Discourse (before 1628?) -- (b) Observations (1628) -- 72 NICHOLAS FERRAR, from The Story Books (1630s) -- 73 PETER HEYLYN (1631, 1652} -- (a) From The Historie of St. George (1631) -- (b) From Cosmographie (1652) -- 74 JOHN MILTON (1631-49) -- (a) From 11 Penseroso (1631?) -- (b) From Against Smectymnuus (1641) -- (c) From The Reason of Church-government (1641) -- (d) From An Apology (1642) -- (e) From Areopagitica (1644) -- (f) From Eikonoklastes (1649) -- 75 HENRY REYNOLDS, from Mythomystes (1632) -- 76 E.C., from Vindiciae Virgilianae (after 1632) -- 77 PHINEAS FLETCHER, from The Purple Island (1633) -- 78 ROBERT JEGON, Spencero Posthumo (c. 1633) -- 79 RALPH KNEVETT, from A Supplement (c. 1633) -- 80 WILLIAM AUSTIN (before 1634) -- (a) From Devotionis Augustinianae Flamma (before 1634) -- (b) From Haec Homo (before 1634) -- 81 GEORGE WITHER, from Haleluiah {1641) -- 82 HENRY MORE (1642-64) -- (a) From 1Pvxw8[a Platonica (1642) -- (b) From Conjectura Cabbalistica (1653) -- (c) From The Grand Mystery of Godliness (1660) -- (d) From Philosophical Writings (1662) -- (e) From The Apology (1664) -- 83 GEORGE DANIEL, from Poems (1646) -- 84 SAMUEL SHEPPARD (1646-55) -- (a) From The Times Displayed (1646) -- (b) From Epigrams (1651) -- (c) From The Faerie King (c. 1655) -- (d) From The Faerie King (c. 1655) -- 85 JOSEPH BEAUMONT, from Psyche (1648) -- 86 MATHIAS PRIDEAUX, from An Easy and Compendious Introduction (1648) -- 87 ABRAHAM COWLEY (1650, 1668) -- (a) From A Discourse upon Gondibert (1650) -- (b) From Of Myself(1668) -- 88 WILLIAM D'AVENANT, fromA Discourse upon Gondibert (1650) -- 89 R.C., from The Chast and Lost Lovers (1651) -- 90 WILLIAM BASSE, from The Pastorals (1653) -- 91 SIR ROBERT SOUTHWELL, from his Commonplace Book (c. 1654) -- 92 SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE, from The Lusiad (1655) -- 93 SAMUEL HOLLAND, from Don Zara del Fogo (1656) -- 94 SIR ASTON COCKAYNE, from Small Poems (1658) -- The Period 1660-1715 -- 95 JOHN WORTinNGTON, Letter to Samuel Hartlib (1660) -- 96 SIR JOHN DENHAM, from Poems and Translations 1668) -- 97 EDWARD PHILLIPS, from Tractulus de Carmine Dramatico (1669) -- 98 JOHN RACKET, Verses on Homer, Virgil, and Spenser (c. 1670) -- 99 RICHARD GRAHAM, from Angliae Speculum Morale (1670) -- 100 JOHN DRYDEN (1672-1700) -- (a) From The Conquest of Granada (1672) -- (b) From The Spanish Fryar (1681) -- (c) From The Satires of Juvenal (1693) -- (d) From De Arte Graphica (1695) -- (e) From The Works of Virgil (1697) -- (f) From The Works of Virgil (1697) -- (g) From Fables Ancient and Modern (1700) -- (h) From The Art of Poetry, with SIR WILLIAM SOAME (1683) -- 101 THOMAS RYMER, from Reflections (1674) -- 102 PETER STERRY, from A Discourse (1675) -- 103 SAMUEL WOODFORD, from A Paraphrase Upon the Canticles (1679) -- 104 JOHN CHATWIN, A Pastoral Elegy (c. 1680) -- 105 THOMAS D'URFEY, from Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681) -- 106 HENRY KEEPE, from Monumenta Westmonasteriensa (1682) -- 107 From A Pastoral (1683) -- 108 KNIGHTLY CHETWOOD, from An Essay on Translated Verse (1684) -- 109 Anonymous Comment following Rymer (1685) -- 110 The Preface to Spenserus Redivivus (1687) -- 111 EDWARD HOWARD, from Caroloiades (1689) -- 112 SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE, from Upon Poetry (1690) -- 113 From the Athenian Mercury (1691) -- 114 JOSEPH ADDISON (1694-1712) -- (a) From An Account of the Greatest English Poets (1694) -- (b) From The Spectator No. 62 (1711) -- (c) From The Spectator No. 183 (1711) -- (d) From The Spectator No. 297 (1712) -- (e) From The Spectator No. 419 (1712) -- 115 SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE (1695, 1716) -- (a) From Prince Arthur (1695) -- (b) From Essays (1716} -- 116 PATRICK HUME, from Notes upon Milton's Paradise Lost (1695) -- 117 LUKE MILBOURNE, from Notes on Dryden's Virgil (1698) -- 118 JOHN DENNIS (1698-1717) -- (a) From The Usefulness of the Stage {1698) -- (b) From The Grounds of Criticism (1704) -- (c) From The Grounds of Criticism (1704) -- (d) From Remarks upon Mr Pope's Homer (1717) -- 119 SAMUEL WESLEY, from The Life of our Blessed Lord (1697) -- 120 SAMUEL COBB, from Poetae Britannici (c. 1700) -- 121 HENRY HALL, from Luctus Britannici (1700) -- 122 A note on Spenser's influence (1702) -- 123 N.N., from Secretaria di Apollo (1704) -- 124 ALEXANDER POPE (1704?, 1713) -- (a) From A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry (1704?) -- (b) From The Guardian No. 40 (1713) -- 125 MATTHEW PRIOR (1706, 1708) -- (a) From An Ode (1706) -- (b) From Solomon (c. 1708) -- 126 AMBROSE PHILIPS, from Pastorals (1710) -- 127 SIR RICHARD STEELE (1710, 1712) -- (a) From The Tat /er No. 194 (1710) -- (b) From The Spectator No. 540 (1712) -- 128 LEONARD WELSTED, from Longinus on the Sublime (1712) -- 129 HENRY FELTON, from A Dissertation (1713) -- 130 THOMAS PARNELL, from Essay on the Different Styles of Poetry (1713) -- 131 JOHN HUGHES, from the 1715 edition of Spenser -- Language and Style -- 132 GABRIEL HARVEY (1580) -- (a) From the Marginalia (1580 and after) -- (b) From Two Other Letters (1580) -- 133 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, from The Defence of Poesie (c. 1583) -- 134 ABRAHAM FRAUNCE, from The Lawiers Logike (1588) -- 135 HENRY PEACHAM, from The Garden of Eloquence (1593) -- 136 HADRIAN DORRELL, from Willobie his Auisa (1594) -- 137 SIR JOHN HARINGTON, from The Metamorphosis of Aiax (1596) -- 138 WILLIAM LISLE, from Part of Du Bartas (c. 1596) -- 139 JOSEPH HALL, from Virgidemiarum (1598) -- 140 FRANCIS BEAUMONT, from the Letter to Speght (1598) -- 141 CHARLES BUTLER, from Rhetoricae Libri Duo (1598) -- 142 EVERARD GUILPIN, from Skialetheia (1598} -- 143 A note on Spenser's failure to write 'trew Hexameters' (1599) -- 144 JOHN BODENHAM, from Belvedere (1600) -- 145 RICHARD CAREW, from The Suruey of Cornwall (1602) -- 146 EDMUND BOLTON, from Hypercritica (c. 1618} -- 147 ALEXANDER GILL, from Logonomia Anglica (1621) -- 148 BEN JONSON, from Timber (1640) -- 149 NATHANIEL STERRY, from A Direction (c. 1650) -- 150 JOHN DAVIES, from The Extravagant Shepherd (1653) -- 151 EDWARD HOWARD (1669, 1689} -- (a) From The Brittish Princes (1669} -- (b) From Caroloiades (1689} -- 152 SIR THOMAS CULPEPPER, from Essayes (1671) -- 153 EDWARD PHILLIPS, from Theatrum Poetarum (1675) -- 154 JOHN OLDHAM, from Horace His Art of Poetry (1681) -- 155 JOHN DRYDEN {1685-1697) -- (a) From Sylvae (1685) -- (b) From The Satires ofJ uvenal (1693) -- (c) From The Works of Virgil (1697) -- 156 FRANCIS ATTERBURY, from Waller's Poems (1690) -- 157 JAMES HARRINGTON, from Athenae Oxonienses (1691) -- 158 sm THOMAS POPE BLOUNT, from De Re Poetica (1694) -- 159 JOHN HUGHES (1698, 1715) -- (a) From Of Style (1698) -- (b) From the 1715 edition of Spenser -- (c) From the 1715 edition of Spenser -- 160 LUKE MILBOURNE, from Notes on Dryden's Virgil (1698} -- 161 RICHARD BENTLEY, from A Dissertation (1699) -- 162 SAMUEL WESLEY, from An Epistle to a Friend (1700) -- 163 MATTHEW PRIOR, from An Ode (1706} -- 164 EDWARD BYSSHE, from The Art of English Poetry (1708} -- 165 WILLIAM COWARD, from Licentia Poetica (1709) -- 166 JOHN DENNIS (17II, 1722) -- (a} From Reflections (17u) -- (b) From Of Prosody (1722) -- 167 ALEXANDER POPE, from The Guardian No. 40 (1713) -- Biographical Notices -- 168 WILLIAM CAMDEN (1600, 1615) -- (a) From Reges Reginae ... (1600) -- (b) From Annales Rerum Anglicarum (1615) -- 169 SIR JAMES WARE, from A View (1633) -- 170 ROBERT JOHNSTON, from Historia Rerum Britannicarum (before 1639) -- 171 THOMAS FULLER, from The Worthies of England (1662) -- 172 JOHN AUBREY, from Brief Lives (up to 1697) -- 173 EDWARD PHILLIPS, from Theatrum Poetarum (1675) -- 174 The Life of 1679 -- 175 WILLIAM WINSTANLEY, from England's Worthies (1684) -- 176 GEORGE SANDYS, from Anglorum Speculum (1684) -- 177 THOMAS BLOUNT, from De Re Poetica (1694) -- 178 JOHN HUGHES, from the 1715 edition of Spenser -- 179 ADDENDUM: G.W. SENIOR and G.W.T., from Amoretti (1595).