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:
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. |