Rev. Samuel Woodford

Born in London, Samuel Woodford studied at St. Paul's School and Wadham College Oxford (B.A. 1657, D.D. 1677). He attended the Inner Temple (1659) and was elected to the Royal Society (1664). Woodford was Rector of Shalden (1673-1700), Canon of Chichester (1676) and of Winchester (1680-1700). He published an allegory of his literary career in "The Voyage," an irregular ode.

TEXT RECORDS:

1658To his ingenuous Friend, the Author, on his incomparable Poems. Carmen Jocoserium.
1679Preface to Paraphrase upon the Canticles.
1679The Legend of Love.
1679The Legend of Love. Canto II.
1679The Legend of Love. Canto III.
1700To Psyche.

PUBLICATIONS:

A paraphrase upon the psalms of David. 1667, 2 vols 1713.
A paraphrase upon the Canticles and some select hymns of the New and Old Testament, with other occasional compositions in English verse. 1679.

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

English
Anglican

St. Paul's School
Wadham College Oxford
Bachelor of Arts
Doctor of Divinity
Inner Temple
Inns of Court
Fellow of the Royal Society

clergyman
Prebendary of Chichester
Prebendary of Winchester
poet

Rev. Joseph Beaumont
Thomas Flatman

REFERENCE:

DNB; NCBEL.

Edward Phillips, Theatrum Poetarum (1675); Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses (1690-91; 1721); John Nichols, Select Collection of Poems (1780-82); Alexander Chalmers, General Biographical Dictionary (1812-17); Bliss, Athenae Oxonienses (1815); Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica (1824); John Holland, in Psalmists of Britain (1843); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); Foster, Alumni Oxon (1887-91); Alexander C. Judson, "Samuel Woodford and Edmund Spenser" Notes and Queries 189 (1945) 191-2; Edward Niles Hooker, "The Early Poetical Career of Samuel Woodforde: The Heavenly Muse in the Age of Reason" Essays Critical and Historical dedicated to Lily B. Campbell (1950) 85-107; Curmmings, Spenser: The Critical Heritage (1971); Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database (1995).

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Rev. Samuel Woodford:

1.	1679  Thomas Flatman, "To my dear Old Friend, the Reverend Dr. Samuel Woodford" Woodford, Paraphrase upon the Canticles (1679).
2.	1680 ca.  John Aubrey, in Brief Lives, 1669-1696; ed. Clark (1898) 2:233.
3.	1823  Anonymous, in "On English Versification" London Magazine 7 (January 1823) 34.
4.	1843  John Holland, in Psalmists of Britain. Records of upwards of One Hundred and Fifty Authors, who have rendered the Whole or Parts of The Book of Psalms, into English Verse (1843) 2:69-72.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Rev. Samuel Woodford:

1.	1675  Edward Phillips, in Theatrum Poetarum (1675) 2:168.
2.	1690  Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses (1690-91; 1721) 2:1098-99.
3.	1780  John Nichols, in Select Collection of Poems with Notes Biographical and Historical (1780-82) 4:261-62.
4.	1812  Alexander Chalmers, in General Biographical Dictionary (1812-17) 32:269-70.

AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(commentary records)

1.	1658  Thomas Flatman:   Samuel Woodford, "To his ingenuous Friend, the Author, on his incomparable Poems. Carmen Jocoserium" Naps upon Parnassus (1658) sigs B4v-B5.