Rev. Nathaniel Whiting

Nathaniel Whiting attended Queen's College Cambridge as a pensioner (B.A. 1631, M.A. 1635); he was ordained in 1639 and was "intruding minister" of Aldwincle All Saints, Northamptonshire (1653-62), from which position he was eventually ejected. In addition to his clerical duties, Whiting was master of the grammar school.

TEXT RECORDS:

1638Il Insonio Insonnadado, or a sleeping-waking Dreame, vindicating the divine Breath of Poesie.

PUBLICATIONS:

Le hore di recreatione: or the pleasant history of Albino and Bellama. 1637.
Il Insonio insonnadado. 1637.
Old Jacob's ladder newly repaired; or, the saints triangle of dangers, deliverences and duties. 1659.

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

English
Anglican

Queen's College Cambridge
Bachelor of Arts
Master of Arts

clergyman
schoolmaster
poet

REFERENCE:

Not DNB; NCBEL.

Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); George Saintsbury, in Minor Poets of the Caroline Period (1905-21) ; Venn and Venn, Alum. Cant. (1922-27); Bush, OHEL (1945); J. R. S. Whiting, "Whiting Family" Notes and Queries (February 1969).

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Rev. Nathaniel Whiting:

1.	1638  William Purifey, "To the Reader" in Whiting, Le Hore de Recreatione (1638); Saintsbury, Minor Poets of the Caroline Period (1905-21) 3:436.
2.	1638  John Whiting, "To his loving Kinsman the Author" in Whiting, Le Hore de Recreatione (1638); Saintsbury, Minor Poets of the Caroline Period (1905-21) 3:436-37.
3.	1638  I. Pickering, "To his Friend, a Panegyric upon his Lovers, Albino and Bellama" in Whiting, Le Hore de Recreatione (1638); Saintsbury, Minor Poets of the Caroline Period (1905-21) 3:438.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Rev. Nathaniel Whiting:

1.	1921  George Saintsbury, "Introduction to Nathanial Whiting" in Minor Poets of the Caroline Period (1905-21) 3:424-27.

AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(commentary records)

1.	1638  Rev. John Donne:   Nathaniel Whiting, in "Il Insonio Insonnadado" Le Hore de Recreatione (1638) sig. H6v.