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ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
George Chapman
Ben Jonson
, "To my worthy and honour'd Friend Mr. George Chapman, on his Translation of Hesiods Works, and Dayes" The Georgicks of Hesiod, by George Chapman (1618) sig. A4v.
Commentary for
George Chapman:
1595: Richard Stapleton
1595: Sir John Davies
1611 ca.: John Davies of Hereford
1614: Thomas Freeman
1616: William Browne of Tavistock
1616: Rev. Robert Anton
1618: Michael Drayton
1618: Ben Jonson
1618 ca.: Edmund Bolton
1627: Michael Drayton
1640: Anonymous
1651: Samuel Sheppard
1683: John Dryden
1699: Charles Gildon
1700: Rev. Samuel Wesley
1740 ca.: William Oldys
1764: David Erskine Baker
1781: Rev. Thomas Warton
1793: William Cowper
1802: Charles Lamb
1814: B. L. O.
1816: Thomas Park
1816: John Keats
1824: Charles Lamb
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1828: Leigh Hunt
1837: Henry Hallam
1847: Edward Farr
1880: Andrew Laing
1882: Epes Sargent
Commentary by
Ben Jonson:
1600: Nicholas Breton
1608: Joshua Sylvester
1614: Christopher Brooke
1616: Edward Alleyn
1616: Francis Beaumont
1616: William Browne of Tavistock
1616: William Camden
1616: Rev. John Donne
1616: Rev. John Donne
1616: Sir Henry Goodere
1616: Sir Henry Goodere
1616: Sir Thomas Overbury
1616: Sir John Roe
1616: Sir John Roe
1616: Sir John Roe
1616: John Weever
1618: George Chapman
1619: Samuel Daniel
1619: Rev. John Donne
1619: William Drummond
1619: Sir John Harington
1619: Rev. John Marston
1627: Michael Drayton
1627: Thomas May
1629: Sir John Beaumont
1635 ca.: Sir William Cavendish
1635 ca.: Sir Kenelm Digby
1635: Joseph Rutter
1640: John Taylor the Water Poet
Whose worke could this be, Chapman, to refine
Olde Hesiods Ore, and give it us; but thine,
Who hadst before wrought in rich Homers Mine?
What treasure hast thou brought us! and what store
Still, still, dost thou arrive with, at our shore,
To make thy honour, and our wealth the more!
If all the vulgar Tongues, that speake this day,
Were askt of thy Discoveries; They must say,
To the Greeke coast thine onely knew the way.
Such Passage hast thou found, such Returnes made,
As, now of all men, it is call'd thy Trade:
And who make thither else, rob, or invade.