The son of Andrew Benlowes of Brent Hall, Essex, Edward Benlowes matriculated at St. John's College Cambridge in 1620. After travel on the Continent he inherited the family estates, married, and became a liberal patron of poets. Having spent his patrimony he spent his later years living at Oxford.
TEXT RECORDS:
1633On the excellent moral Poem, entituled the Isle of Man.
PUBLICATIONS:
Sphinx theologica: sive musica temple. 1636.
Papa perstriclus, (Echo) ictus. 1645.
A poetic descent upon a private musick-making. 1649.
Theophila, or loves sacrifice: a divine poem by E.B. 1652.
The summary of wisedome. 1657.
A glance at the glories of sacred friendship. 1657.
Oxonii encomium. 1672.
Magna coelestis. 1673.
Oxonia elogia. 1673.
PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:
English
Catholic
Anglican
Dissenter
St. John's College Cambridge
poet
John Davies of Kidwelly
Sir William Davenant
Rev. Giles Fletcher
Rev. Phineas Fletcher
Francis Quarles
REFERENCE:
DNB; NCBEL.
Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses (1690-91; 1721); James Granger, Biographical History (1769; 1824) [portrait]; George Saintsbury, "Benlowes' Theophila" Bibliographer 2 (1903); J. H. L. Robbie, "Benlowes, a Seventeenth-century Plagiarist" MLR 23 (1928); C. Niemeyer, "New Light on Benlowes" RES 12 (1936); Harold Jenkins, Edward Benlowes (1952); M.-S. Rostvig, "Benlowes, Marvell, and the divine Casimir," Huntington Library Quarterly 18 (1954); E. E. Duncan-Jones, "Benlowes' Borrowings from George Herbert" RES NS 6 (1955); E. E. Duncan-Jones, "Benlowes and Alexander Brome," Notes and Queries (November 1956); E. E. Duncan-Jones, "Benlowes, Marvell, and the divine Casimir: a Note" Huntington Library Quarterly 20 (1957).
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AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
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1. | 1633 Rev. Phineas Fletcher: Edward Benlowes, "On the excellent moral Poem, entituled the Isle of Man" in Purple Island (1633) Sig. ¶4v. |
2. | 1635 Francis Quarles: Edward Benlowes, "Tot Flores Quarles, quot Paradisus, habet" Quarles, Emblems (1635) sig. A4. |