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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

Chrysopoea or The Art of making Gold in 3 Books which he dedicated to Pope Leo the 10 th another call'd Geronticon in one Book besides 5 Books of Iambics 2 of Sermones and 2 of Odes Joannes Baleus an English writer who flourisht in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth best known by his Treatise which give account of all the Eminent writers of our Nation of what Art or Faculty soever and by what he hath thereby contributed to this work the better meriting to be here inserted to which place the title he derives is by those Dramatic Pieces out of Holy Scripture which we find enumerated among the rest of his works Ioannes Baptista Almadianus a Viterbian of whom there are several Elegies in Latin Verse upon the death of Platina extant at the end of Platina's works Ioannes Baptista Egnatius an Eminent and General Professor of the Liberal Arts at Venice of which Citty he was also a Native the only Monument of whose Poetic Genius we find mentioned among many other of his Volumes is his Panegyric in Heroic Latin Verse upon Francis the first of that Name King of France Ioannes Baptista Pigna another Venetian of whose writings there are 4 Books of Sonnets printed at Venice together with the Sonnets of Celio Calcagnino and Ludovico Ariosto by Vincentio Valgrisio Ioannes Baptista Scaphenatius a Milanese of whose writing something is preserv'd among the Collected works of several Eminent Italian writers of Latin Poetry Ioannes Barclaius a most acute learned and Elegant Scochman and very famous for what he hath writen both in Prose and Verse but especially for his Argenis and his Euphormio both which works though written for the most part in solute Oration yet may very well be accounted Poems not only for that they are intersperst throughout with Verse but also for that they have their Political and Moral truths allegoris'd or coucht under feign'd and invented Story Ioannes Boccatius see Giovanni Boccatio Ioannes Bonfinius a Frenchman of Auvergne whose Basia and other Poems were printed at Leiden an 1656. Ioannes Busmannus a writer of Poems which were printed at Wirtemberg an 1337. Ioannes Carbonirosa an Author of Kirkhoven who among other things wrote certain Dramatic Pieces out of the Holy Scripture Joannes Columbinus the Author of a little Poem entiled Contra Philomusum or against the Contemners of School Divinity Joannes Cotta a native of Ponte Aliaco a Town upon the River Athesis who publisht an Elegant Book of Latin Epigrams but whose Noble Book of Chorographie begun in Verse was not only left unfinisht but also that which was done of it lost together with his learned Scholia upon Plinie Joannes Crato a Silesian born at Vratisla●● the Cheif City of that Country in the year of our Lord 1512 he is styl'd by Boisa●dus in his Icones the Hierophantes of all polite Literature and had indeed the general reputation as well of an excellent Poet as of a profound Philosopher and most skilful Physician but for being so great a Philosopher and Physician it was that he remain'd Counsellor and Chief Physician for 26 years to 3 Emperours successively Ferdinand the first Maximilian the second and Rodulphus the second Joannes Dantiscus a Polonian who wrote in Heroic Verse a Poem entitled Soteria to Sigismund de Erberstein a Knight of Poland upon his return from Muscovie another upon the Victory of Sigismund King of Poland against the Waywod of Moldavia also a Sylva in Elegiac Verse upon the calamities of his times He was flourishing in the year 1531. Joannes Elius a writer of Divine Odes mention'd in Hervagius his Catalogue Joannes Fabritius a Native of Berkena in Lower Alsatia who wrote in Verse the History of Gulielmus Thellius which dedicating to Conradus Pellicanus he publisht himself with other Poems of his He flourisht at Zurich in the year 1554. Joannes Filiczkius a Hungarian Poet remembred for what he hath written in Latin Verse among the Chief of that Nation Joannes Franciscus Camaenus a Native of Perusia a Town of Hetruria but under the Pope's Dominion who wrote an Heroic Poem in name at least of the Rape of Philenis which with several other Poems as Eclogues Elegies Epigrams Odes Epicedia c. was printed at Venice by Gulielmo de Fontaneto an 1520. Ioannes Franciscus Mutius an Italian of whom what is extant in Latin Verse is to be found among the selected workes of divers of the principal Latin Poets of that Nation Ioannes Franciscus Picus Mirandula the Nephew of that Miracle of his time Picus Count of Mirandula and as related to him by Blood so also by Ingenuity and perfection of learning both his Books de Veritate Fidei Christianae and also his Sacred Poems are mentioned with high commendation by Paulus Iovius in his Elogies and also by Boissartus in his Icones Ioannes Franciscus Quintianus Stoa an Italian writer of very many Poetical things in Latin Verse besides some in Prose among his first kind are his Threnodies upon the deaths of the K. of France the K. of Scots Queen Anne Philippus Beroaldus c. His Poem of the Amours of Mars and Venus in 8 Books his Cleopolis or Sylva upon the Glory of the City of Paris his Sylva in praise of Marinus Beichemius his Theandrogenosis and Theanastasis the first an Ode upon our Saviours Nativity the second a Sylva upon his Resurrection 7 Tragedies whereof 2 Divine and 5 Comedies Ioannes de Gerson a French Author of a most wonderful multitude of Volumes whereof some in Verse particularly his Epithalamium upon the Mystical Marriage betwen a Divine and the Study of Theology He was Chancellor of the Parisian Academy and is mentioned flourishing in the year of our Lord 1429. Ioannes Fungerus a German who sung in Heroic Verse the Acts of Maurice William Governor of Friseland Ioannes Gigas the Author of a Treatise concerning the Certainty of Christian Religion to which are added his Divine Poems besides which he wrote many things in Poetry as Sylvae Epigrams Elegies and among the rest his Elegy upon the 2 Eclipses of the Moon that hapened in the year 1538. his Funeral Elegy upon John Prince of Saxonie his Encomium upon the City of Leipsich and his Epicedium upon the death of Erasmus Joannes Gilleius a Burgundian who among other things wrote an Elegant Description of the Stately House and Gardens of Pagn●l belonging to the Gileian Family and of the City of Salines and the River Furiosa flowing by it together with the Famous Wilderness belonging to the Sieur Du Sachet Joannes Girardus the Author of a Poem entitled Divionensis Stichostratia with two Centuries of Epigrams Joannes Grasserus the Author of certain Latin Poems which were printed at Colen an 1595. Joannes Hasembergius a Bohemian no less mention'd for his Drolling Verses upon Martin Luther then for his being Tutor to the Emperor Ferdinand's Children Joannes Honterus an Eminent Geographer of Cronstadt in Transilvania who among divers Geographical Treatises wrote one in Hexameter

into the hands of the few that judge have been vuoy'd up by their authority had they been plausible they would h●●e been cry'd up by the many that think And shall such very Ignore and contemptible pretenders ●e allow'd a place among tht most renowned of Poetic Writers among so many Loureated heads with the triumphant wreath of Parnassus I beg your ●avourable attentions yours in the first place most oft equal Judges yours in the next most Curteous Readers let me plead a little for the well meaners only as something Sympathising with those for whom I ●lead Vertue will plead for it self and ●eeds no Advocate first let it consider'd time● some that had their Poetical excellencies if well examin'd and chiefly among the rest Chaucer who through all the neglect of former● ag'd Poets still keeps a name being by some few admir'd for his real worth to others not unpleasing for his facetious way which joyn'd with his old English intertains them with a kind of Drollery however from Qu. Elizabeth's Reign the Language hath been not so unpolisht as to render the Poetry of that time ungratefull to such as at this day will take the paines to examin it well besides if 〈◊〉 Poetry should Pleas but what is calculated to every refinement of a Language of how ill● consequence this would be for the future let him consider and make it his own case who being now in fair repute promising to himself a lasting Fame shall two or three Ages hence when the Language comes to be double refin'd understand if Souls have any intelligence after their departure hence what is done on Earth that his Works are become obsolete and thrown aside If then their Antiquated style be no sufficient reason why the Poets of former A●es should be rejected much less the pre●●●e of their antiquated mode or fashion 〈◊〉 of Poetry which whether it be altered for the better or not I cannot but ●ook upon it as a very pleasant humour that we should be so complyant with the French custom as to follow set fashions not only in Garments but also in Music wherein the Lydian mood is now most in request and Poetry for Cloths I leave them to the discretion of the Modish whether of our own or the French Nation Breeches and Doublet will not fall under a Metaphysical consideration but in Arts and Sciences as well as in Moral Notions I shall not scruple to maintain that what was verum bonum once 〈◊〉 to be so always now whether the Tr●nck-Hose Fancy of Queen Elizabeth's days or the Pantaloon Genius of ours be best I shall not be hasty to determin not presuming to call in question the judgment of the present Age only thus much I must needs see that Custom Opinion ofttimes take so deep a root that Judgment hath not free power to act To the Antient Greecs and Latins the Modern Poet● of all Nations and for several Ages have acknowledged themselves beholding for those both Precepts and examples which have been thought conducing to the perfection of Poetry for the manner of its Garb and dress which is Vers we in particular to the Italians the first of the Moderns that have been eminently Famous in this Faculty the Measure of the Greec and Latin Verse being no way suitable to the Modern Languages truly so far as I have observed the Italian Stanza in Heroic Poem and the Sonnet Canzon and Madrigal in the Lyric as they have been formerly more frequently made use of by the English than by any so except their own proper Language they become none better then ours and therefore having been used with so good success I see no reason why they should be utterly rejected there is certainly a decency in one sort of Verse more then another which custom cannot really alter only by familiarity make it seem better how much more stately and Majestic in Epic● Poems ● especially of Heroic Argument● Spencers's Stanza which I take to be but an Improvement upon Tasso's Ottava Rima or the Ottava Rima it self used by many of our once esteemed Poets is above the way either of Couplet or Alternation of four Verses only I am perswaded were it revived would soon be acknowledg'd and in like manner the Italian Sonnet and Canzon above Pindaric Ode which whatev●r the name pretends comes not so near in resemblance to the Odes of Pindarus as the Canzon which though it answers not so exactly as to consist of Stroph Antistroph and Epod yet the Verses which in the first Stroph of the Canzon were tied to no fixt number order or measure nevertheless in the following Srophs return in the same number order measure as were observ'd in the ●ir whereas that which we call the Pindaric hath a nearer affinity with the Mono●rophic or Apolelymenon used in the Cho●●●s of Aeschylus his Tragedies one thing more is to be observ'd between the Italian Verse and ours namely that the Dissyliable which in that Language is the only way of Riming is also in ours very applicable to Rime and hath been very much used formerly I was going to say with as much grace sometimes if not more then the Monosyllable but that I am loath to appear too singularly addicted to that which is now so utterly exploded especially since there are other things of much greater consequence then the Verse though it cannot be deny'd but that a Poetical fancy is much seen in the choise of Verse proper to the chosen subject yet however let the fashion of the Vers be what it will according to the different humour of the Writer if the Style be elegant and suitable the Verse whatever it is may be the better dispenc't with and the truth is the use of Measure alone without any Rime at all would give far more ample Scope and liberty both to Style and fancy then can possibly be observed in Rime as evidently appears from an English Heroic Poem which came forth not many years ago and from the Style of Virgil Horace Ovid and others of the Latins which is so pure and proper that it could not possiby have been better in Prose another thing yet more considerable is conduct and design in whatever kind of Poetry whether the Epic the Dramatic the Lyric the Elegiac the Epanetic the Bucolic or the Epigram under one of which all the whole circuit of Poetic design is one way or other included so that whoever should desire to introduce some 〈◊〉 of Poem of different fashion from any known to the Antients would do no more then he that should study to bring a new Order into Architecture altogether differe●● both from the Doric Ionic Corinthian Tuscan and Composite Epigram is as it were the fag end of Poetry and indeed consists rather of conceit and ●cumen of Wit then of Poetical inventions yet it is more commendable to be a Martial in Epigram then Juvenal's Codrus in Heroic Poetry The Epaenetic comprehends the Hymn the Epithalamium