Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) — John Shaqi
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
[47] The Folger copy, here reproduced, is complete except for Sig. L4
(pp. 235-236), which have been supplied from another copy.
[48] This error goes back to the first entry in =A Catalogue of the
Library of Henry Huth= (London, 1880), which says the second edition is
the same as the first.
[49] The first word of the next stanza is changed from "And" in the
1613 edition to "Then" in the second impression.
[50] Rather surprisingly, in view of its silent emulation of Marlowe's
poem, =Philos and Licia= pays lavish tribute to Sidney. But since
tributes to Sidney were common in the period, this one may be no more
than a conventional recognition of his greatness.
[51] Occasionally, though, it introduces odd off-rhymes such as
"forth" and "mouth" (p. 5), "vaines" and "streames" (p. 6), "either"
and "fairer" (p. 8).
A
PLEASANT
AND DELIGHTFVLL
POEME OF
two Louers,
PHILOS
and
_LICIA_.
LONDON
Printed by _W. S._ for _Iohn Smethwick_, and are to bee
sold at his Shop in Saint _Dunstanes_ Church-yard in
Fleete-streete, vnder the Dyall.
1624.
To the Reader
_Gentlemen; hauing beene (with the ouerthrow giuen to my best opposed
forces) violently taken with the ouerflowing delights of
hart-rauishing Poesie, the common infection of easie youth, and
commending manie idle houres to these papers, and these to the Presse,
I commit both to your fauorable censures. In which, if there be any
thing (yet I feare I am not to attend so high a blisfulnesse) which
may yeeld you the least content, my fortune hath brought forth the
intended end of my labours, and I desire no other happinesse._
PHILOS AND LICIA.
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