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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

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 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hesiod Theog London Printed for CHARLES SMITH at the Angel near the Inner Temple-Gate in Fleet-Street Anno Dom. M.DC.LXXV Perfection of knowledge the one how immers't in swinish sloth and ignorance the other I am apt to wonder how it could possibly be imagin'd that the same rationality of Soul should inform alike as we are oblig'd to beleive by the authority of Sacred Scriptures and the Doctrine of the Souls Immortality the whole masse frame of Human Nature and not rather that there should be a gradation of Notion from the lowest brute up to the Angelic Region But that calling to mind the common maxim of Philosophy that the perfection of Soul is the same in the Infant as in the ripe of age only acting more or less vigorously according to the capacity of the Organs I thence collect that there is also a different capacity of the Organs whence ariseth a different Spirit and Constitution or some intervening cause by which it either acts or lies dormant even in Persons of the same age the first is that Melior Natura which the Poet speaks of with which whoever is amply indued take that Man from his Infancy throw him into the Deserts of Arabia there let him converse some years with Tygers and Leopards and at last bring him where civil society conversation abides and ye shall see how on a sudden the scales and dross of his barbarity purging off by degrees he will start up a Prince or Legislator or some such Illustrious Person the other is that noble thing call'd Education this is that Harp of Orphe●s that Lute of Amphion so elegantly figur'd by the Poets to have wrought such Miracles among irrational and insensible Creatures which raiseth beauty even out of deformity order and regularity out of Chaos and confusion and which if throughly and rightly prosecuted would be able to civilize the most savage natures root out barbarism and ignorance from off the face of the Earth those who have either of these qualifications singly may justly be tearm'd Men those who have both united in a happy conjunction more than Men those who ha●● neither of them in any competent measure certainly in the conduct of their lives less then Men and of this last sort is compos'd that greatest part by far of our habitable World for what the Nature and distinction is of the Inhabitants of other orb●is● to us utterly unkown though not any where circumscrib'd but diffused alike through the 4 quarters commonly call'd to Euripides for Tragedy yet nevertheless sleep inglorious in the croud of the forgotten vulgar and for as many of those Names of Writers whether more or less Eminent as have been preserv'd from utter oblivion together with an account for the most part of what they writ all Learned Men especially such as are curious of antiquity are oblig'd to those generous Registers who have been studious to keep alive the memories of Famous Men of whom it is at least some satisfaction to understand that there were once such Men or Writings in being However since their works having by what ever casualty perisht their Names though thus recorded yet as being dispeirc't in several Authors and some of those not of the most conspicuous note are scarce known to the generality even of the Learned themselves and since of later Ages the memories of many whose works have been once made public and in general esteem have nevertheless through tract of time and the succession of new Generations fallen to decay and dwindled almost to nothing I judged it a Work in some sort not unconducing to a public benefit and to many not ungratefull to muster up together in a body though under their several Classes as many of those that have imploy'd their fancies or inventions in all the several Arts and Sciences as I could either collect out of the several Authors that have mention'd them in part or by any other ways could come to the knowledge of but finding this too various and manifold a task to be manag'd at once I pitcht upon one Faculty first which not more by chance than inclination falls out to be that of the Poets a Science certainly of all others the m●st●noble and exalted and not unworthily tearmed Divine since the heighth of Poetical rapture hath ever been accounted little less then Divine Inspiration Pardon me therefore most Honour'd Friends if having undertaken a Province more weighty and difficult then the account of any other Art and Science and which beyond all others exerciseth the utmost nicety and sagacity of judgement I ambitiously make address to the Patronage of Persons of so fair a reputation as well in Poetry as other parts of Learning and who are your selves partys not obscurely or without just merit concerned whom against what ever may happen either of deserv'd or undeserv'd Censure vouchsafe but the two first letters of their Names and these it is to be supposed desire to be known onely to some Friends that understand the Interpretation of those letters or some curning Men in the Art of Divination now as to the last part of the objection I have so much the more confidence to stand upon my own justification by how much I rely upon this Maxim that it is less injustice to admit of 20 that deserve no notice or mention then to omit one that really deserves and here methinks there seems to arise a large feild of examination and distinction between those that are in truth of no valew or desert and those that are generally reputed so it is to be observed that some have been once of great esteem and have afterwards grown out of date others have never arriv'd to any esteem and possibly in both cases the merits of the cause may have been various on either side yet I am apt to beleive that as it is a more frequent thing to over then undervalew so a universal contempt is a shrew'd not infallible sign of a universal indesert the reason is plain for though no doubt the number of the judicious and knowing is as great if not greater then ever yet most confessedly not so great as that of the ignorant or only superficially knowing there are many that think few only that judge therefore things of the most transcendent excellence are for the most part only valw'd by Persons of transcendent judgment whereas the indifferent and plausible are received with general and vulgar applause So that those Works which being advantageously publisht nevertheless obtain no Fame may be justly suspected of little or no worth since had they been excellent they might falling