Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624)Barksted, William, active 1611
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Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624)
Barksted, William, active 1611
English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700; Epic poetry, English; Renaissance -- England
[2] Published with I. C's [John Chalkhill's?] =Alcilia, Philoparthens
Loving Folly. Whereunto is Added Pigmalion's Image ... and Also
Epigrammes by Sir I. H.= [John Harington] =and Others=, STC 4275.
[3] =Bibliographical Collections and Notes, 1893-1903= (London, 1903;
reprinted 1961 by Burt Franklin), p. 301.
[4] Or Linche's.
[5] Actually Grosart edited the second impression of =The Scourge=, STC
969 (1614), the earliest impression he knew at the time, though by
1883 he had become aware of the unique Huth copy of the 1613 edition.
(See pp. 49-50 issued with copy no. 38 of Grosart's edition of =The
Scourge=.)
[6] =Philos and Licia= was probably not composed much before Oct. 2,
1606, when it was entered in =A Transcript of the Registers ...
1554-1640=, ed. Arber, III (London, 1876), 330. I have placed it first,
however, because of the undeserved neglect from which it has suffered
over the years and because of its literary superiority to the other
poems in the collection. I have placed =Pyramus and Thisbe= second
because, though not known to have been published prior to 1617, it was
doubtless composed by Nov. 25, 1596, the date given in the dedication,
and probably printed shortly thereafter in an edition now lost.
[7] "Thomas Heywood's =Art of Love= Lost and Found," =The Library=, III
(1922), 212.
[8] The Francis Freeling-Henry Huth-W. A. White copy, here reproduced
by courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
[9] These evident errors appear to have been corrected in ink on the
Bodleian copy of the 1620 impression, of which I have seen a
microfilm.
[10] Gerald Eades Bentley has gleaned and summarized a few additional
facts about Barksted in =The Jacobean and Caroline Stage=, II (Oxford,
1941), 357-358. For an account of the correspondences between =The
Insatiate Countess= and the poems, see R. A. Small, "The Authorship and
Date of =The Insatiate Countess=," =Harvard Studies and Notes in
Philology and Literature=, V (1896), 279-282. For a more recent survey
of Barksted's probable contribution to =The Insatiate Countess= see A.
J. Axelrad, =Un Malcontent Elizabethain: John Marston= (Paris, 1955),
pp. 86-90.
[11] The attribution was made by Thomas Corser in =Collectanea
Anglo-Poetica=, LII (Manchester, 1860), 24-25, and has been generally
accepted. In further support of Corser's attribution, one might
mention the anecdote in =Amos and Laura= about a merchant seaman,
followed by a vivid description of a storm at sea (pp. 228-229). Such
a tale and description are appropriate in a poem by Page, who had been
a naval chaplain and who published several sermons and other
devotional works for seamen.
[12] Francis Meres, =Palladis Tamia= (1598). Introduction by Don Cameron
Allen (New York, 1938), p. 284.
[13] Anthony a Wood, =Athenae Oxonienses and Fasti Oxonienses=, 2 vols.
in one (London, 1691), 467. Page was vicar of St. Nicholas Church in
Deptford from 1597 until his death in 1630.
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