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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54754	Theatrum poetarum, or, A compleat collection of the poets especially the most eminent, of all ages, the antients distinguish't from the moderns in their several alphabets : with some observations and reflections upon many of them, particularly those of our own nation : together with a prefatory discourse of the poets and poetry in generall / by Edward Phillips.	Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?	1675 (1675)	Wing P2075; ESTC R18539	150,926	482

Astronomical and Geographical Joannes Stella a Venetian Poet who wrote the Lives of several Popes in Latin Verse Joannes Stigelius a famous German Astronomer and not obscure Poet which last Character he bears from his Epithalamium of Georgius Sabinus and Anne the Daughter of Philip Melanction his Versification of several of David's Psalms with other Scripture Hymns his Epicedium upon the death of Euricius Cordus another upon the death of Anne Wife of Philip Earl of Nassaw his Eclogue Jolas upon the Emperour Charles 5 th c. He Flourisht in the year 1554. Joannes Tetthingerus an Author of Tubingen one of the 16 Earldoms in the Circle of Suevia who set forth in Heroic Verse the 4 Wirtembergs wars which lasted for many years he flourisht at Pfullendorf anno 1534. Joannes Thomas Musconius a Member of that Society of Italian Poets who are joyn'd together in a Publisht Collection of their selected Works in Latin Verse Joannes Thuilius a Poet of Mons-Mariae who saluted Nicolaus Contarenus Duke of Venice with a Solemn Panegyric in Verse and was highly in Favour with Andreas Maurocenus and Dominicus Molinus for his Exalted Vein in Poetry Joannes Versola a Spaniard who by King Philip the Second then in England and Married to our Queen Mary was sent Embassadour to Rome The Verses which he took delight to Compose in the interval of his more serious affairs had the esteem of Learned Men and were printed at Panormus in Sicily under the Title of Epistles Ioannes Vrsinus an Eminent Professor of Medicine which Apollo-like he joyned with Poetry he described in Elegiac Verse the Prosopopoea or Metaphorical Representation of divers Animals as also the Diaetetical part of Medicine besides a little Book of Moral Sentences in Verse like that of Cato Iodocus Badius Ascentius a Commentatour upon Tully's Offices and Epistles and Boethius de Consolatione Philosophiae Erasmus compares him to Budaeus whom he calls the Ornament of France Moreover by a late English Author he is character'd the most famous Philosopher Rhetorician and Poet of his time Iodocus Gallus a Dr of Theology of Rubeaqua a Town in Upper Alsatia and Pastor of the Church of Spire who besides several Theological Treatises in Prose wrote Epigrams in divers kinds of Verse Iohn Cleaveland a Notable High soaring Witty Loyalist of Cambridge whose Verses in the time of the Civil War begun to be in great request both for their Wit and zeal to the King's cause for which indeed he appear'd the first if not only Eminent Champion in Verse against the Presbyterian Party but most especially against the Kirck and Scotch Covenant which he prosecuted with such a Satyrical fury that the whole Nation fares the worse for it lying under a most grievous Poetical Censure In fine so great a Man hath Cleaveland been in the Estimation of the generality in regard his Conceits were out of the common road and Wittily far fetch 't that Grave Men in outward appearance have not spar'd in my hearing to affirm him the best of English Poets and let them think so still who ever please provided it be made no Article of Faith S r John Davis the Learned and well accomplisht Father of a no less learned and accomplisht Daughter the present Countess Dowager of Huntington his Poem Nosce teipsum besides which and his Orchestra publisht together with it both the products of his younger years I remember to have seen from the hands of the Countess a judicious Metaphrase of several of David's Psalms is said to have made him first known to Queen Elizabeth and afterwards brought him in favour with King James under whose auspices addicting himself to the Study of the Common Law of England he was made the King's First Serjeant and afterwards his Attorney General in Ireland S r John Denham late Surveyour of his Majestie 's Works but of a much more ce●ebrated memory by the Fame of what he hath written in Poetry especially his Coopers Hill and his Tragedy The Sophi which having been long since publisht and in general esteem came forth again a few years since joyn'd with the rest of his Poetical Works which together amount to a considerable Volume John Donne a Student in his younger years in Lincoln's Inne whither he betook himself from the University of Oxford but instead of po●ing upon readious Reports Judgments and Statute Books he accomplisht himself with the politer kind of Learning moderately enjoy'd the pleasures of the Town and frequented good Company to which the sharpness of his Wit and gayety of Fancy render'd him not a little grateful in which state of life he compos'd his more brisk and Youthful Poems which are rather commended for the heighth of Fancy and acutness of conceit then for the smoothness of the Verse At last by King James his command or rather earnest persuasion setting himself to the study of Theology and entring into Holy Orders he was first made Preacher of Lincoln's Inne afterwards advanc't to be Dean of Pauls and as of an Eminent Poet he became a much more Eminent Preacher so he rather improved then relinquisht his Poetical Fancy only converting it from human and worldly to Divine and Heavenly subjects John Driden Poet Laureat and Historiographer to His present Majesty with whom such hath been the approbation and acceptance his Poetry hath obtained especially what he hath written of Dramatic with wonderful success to the Theater Royal viz. Comedies several abounding with no vulgar wit and ingenuity as the Maiden Queen the Wild Gallant the Mock Astrologer Marriage a la mode the Amourous Old Woman the Assignation Tyrannic Love and Amboyna Tragedies besides Historical Drama's viz. the Indian Emperor and two parts of the Conquests of Granada in which if he have indulg'd a little too much to the French way of continual Rime and interlarding of History with ascititious Love and Honour I am apt to impute it rather to his complying with the modyfied an gallantish humour of the time then to his own well examined judgment Iohn Fletcher one of the happy Trinmvirat the other two being Iohnson and Shakespear of the Chief Dramatic Poets of our Nation in the last foregoing Age among whom there might be said to be a symmetry of perfection while each excelled in his peculiar way Ben. Iohnson in his elaborate pains and knowledge of Authors Shakespear in his pure vein of wit and natural Poetic heighth Fletcher in a courtly Elegance and gentile familiarity of style and withal a wit and invention so overflowing that the luxuriant branches thereof were frequently thought convenient to be lopt off by his almost inseparable Companion Francis Beaumont Iohn Ford a Dramatic Writer some years since of Tragedies and Comedies in their season I suppose not wholly strangers to the English Stage His Tragedies The Broken Heart Loves Sacrifice and 'T is pitty she 's a Whore his Comedies the Fancies the Lady's Tryall he wrote also a Tragy-Comedy Loves Labyrinth besides the Dramatic History of Perkin