1651
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
Francis Beaumont
Samuel Sheppard
, "On the two admirable Witts, Francis Beaumont, and John Fletcher" Epigrams (1651) 23.
Commentary for
Francis Beaumont:
1611 ca.: John Davies of Hereford
1616: Sir John Beaumont
1616: Ben Jonson
1627: Michael Drayton
1640: Anonymous
1651: Samuel Sheppard
1663: Anonymous
1687: William Winstanley
1689: Edward Howard
1738: Anonymous
1784: Hannah More
1795: Charles Dibdin
1805: William Wordsworth
1820: William Hazlitt
1826: Richard Ryan
1833: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1835: Leigh Hunt
1836: Richard Cattermole
1847: Edward Farr
1882: Epes Sargent
Commentary by
Samuel Sheppard:
1645: John Taylor the Water Poet
1646: William Browne of Tavistock
1646: Samuel Daniel
1646: Michael Drayton
1646: Thomas Heywood
1646: Ben Jonson
1646: Thomas May
1646: Martin Parker
1646: Francis Quarles
1646: George Wither
1649: George Wither
1651: Francis Beaumont
1651: George Chapman
1651: Sir William Davenant
1651: Sir John Harington
1651: Ben Jonson
1651: Francis Quarles
1651: Sir Walter Raleigh
1651: Sir Philip Sidney
1651: Joshua Sylvester
1651: John Taylor the Water Poet
Cease Greece to boast of Aristophanes,
Or of Menander, or Euripides,
The Comick Sock, and Tragick Buskin we
Weare neatest here, in forreigne Brittanie:
Or if you list to struggle for the Bayes,
Wee'l fight with Beaumont's, and with Fletchers Playes.