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
[30] Yet =Dom Diego= seems not to have been previously identified as a
minor epic. The late C. S. Lewis, a few pages before his brilliant
discussion of =Hero and Leander= as an epyllion, refers to Lynche's poem
as a "stanzaic =novella=." See Lewis' =English Literature in the
Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama= (Oxford, 1954), p. 479, pp. 486-488.
[31] For a complete list of Burton's books in the Bodleian and Christ
Church libraries, numbering 581 and 473 items respectively, see "Lists
of Burton's Library," ed. F. Madan, =Oxford Bibliographical Society
Proceedings & Papers=, I, Part 3 (1925; printed 1926), 222-246.
[32] No. 376 in Ronald B. McKerrow, =Printers' & Publishers' Devices in
England & Scotland 1485-1640= (London, 1913), p. 144. According to
McKerrow, the bird in this handsome device, with the word "wick" in
its bill, is probably a smew, with a pun intended on the name of the
owner of the device, Smethwick.
[33] For these notes I am indebted to an excellent article, "The
library of Robert Burton," ed. F. Madan, p. 185 especially, in the
=Oxford Bibliographical Society= volume listed above.
[34] No. 240 in McKerrow, =Printers' Devices=, p. 92. "Framed device of
a lion passant crowned and collared, a mullet for difference, on an
anchor; with =Desir n'a repos=, and the date 1586."
[35] =A Dictionary of Printers and Booksellers=, ed. R. B. McKerrow
(London, 1910), p. 151.
[36] Ibid., p. 199.
[37] Arber, =A Transcript=, IV, 149.
[38] Contributing to the unattractive appearance of the Bodleian copy
of =Mirrha=, which Grosart consulted, is the close cropping of its upper
margins.
[39] =The poems of William Barksted=, ed. Grosart (Manchester, 1876), p.
x.
[40] Barksted, p. xiv.
[41] Henry Plomer, =A Short History of English Printing= (London, 1900),
p. 163.
[42] The Oxford and Folger copies, of which only the first is listed
in the STC. There is a third, imperfect copy at Trinity College,
Cambridge, from the Edward Capell collection. According to Mr. L.W.
Hanson, Keeper of Printed Books at the Bodleian, the tipping of the
type in the Bodleian copy represents a fault at binding.
[43] Though the printer's name is not given, the printer's device, a
fleur-de-lis, no. 251 in McKerrow, was used by Okes about this time.
[44] Grosart, p. xiii, n. 17, stanza 20, line 7, which has
"adoration[e]" in both the original and Grosart's "corrected" version,
and p. xiii, n. 19, stanza 41, line 6, "graces" in both copies.
[45] The printer was Thomas Creede, as revealed by the printer's
device, no. 299 in McKerrow, p. 117: "Framed device of Truth being
scourged by a hand from the clouds. Between her feet the initials T.
C. The motto Viressit vulnere veritas."
[46] The presence of these dedicatory verses in the Huntington copy
has been noted by Franklin Williams in his =Index of Dedications and
Commendatory Verses= (London, 1962), p. 193.
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