1730 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

Abraham Fraunce

Alexander Pope to Joseph Spence, November 1730; in Spence, Anecdotes, ed. Osborn (1966) 1:181.

Commentary for
Abraham Fraunce:

1592: Gabriel Harvey
1598: Rev. Francis Meres
1720: Giles Jacob
1730: Alexander Pope
1781: Rev. Thomas Warton
1790: Edmond Malone
1805: Rev. Henry John Todd
1807: Rev. William Beloe
1824: Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin
1843: John Holland
1845: Edward Farr

Commentary by
Alexander Pope:

1706: William Walsh
1709: William Congreve
1709: Elizabeth Thomas
1710: Thomas D'Urfey
1710: Ambrose Philips
1711: John Dennis
1713: Sir John Denham
1713 ca.: Ambrose Philips
1713: Rev. Jonathan Swift
1714: Ambrose Philips
1715: John Hughes
1716: Sir Richard Blackmore
1717: Anne Finch
1717: Rev. Thomas Parnell
1717: Rev. Thomas Warton the Elder
1720: Jabez Hughes
1721: Rev. Thomas Parnell
1721: Rev. Thomas Parnell
1722: Joseph Addison
1722: Judith Cowper Madan
1723: Bp. Francis Atterbury
1726: Rev. Christopher Pitt
1728: William Bond
1728: Samuel Daniel
1728: Rev. William Diaper
1728: Michael Drayton
1728: Aaron Hill
1728 ca.: Sir John Mennes
1728 ca.: John Oldham
1728: Ambrose Philips
1728: Lewis Theobald
1728: George Wither
1729: Joseph Mitchell
1730: Sir John Beaumont
1730: Elijah Fenton
1730: Elijah Fenton
1730: Abraham Fraunce
1730 ca.: Rev. Thomas Parnell
1730: Lewis Theobald
1730: Rev. Samuel Wesley
1731: Rev. Richard Bentley
1731: Rev. James Bramston
1731: John Dennis
1731: Aaron Hill
1732: John Gay
1733: Robert Dodsley
1733: David Mallet
1734: Sir William Davenant
1734: Rev. John Donne
1734: William Duncombe
1734 ca.: John Gay
1734: Rev. Walter Harte
1734 ca.: Thomas Rymer
1735: Robert Dodsley
1735: Nahum Tate
1735: Rev. Samuel Wesley the Younger
1736: John Gay
1737: Joseph Addison
1737: Sir Richard Blackmore
1737: Abraham Cowley
1737: John Dryden
1737: Rev. Walter Harte
1737: John Milton
1737: Rev. Jonathan Swift
1738: Samuel Butler
1740: Christopher Smart
1741: Richard Savage
1742: John Bankes
1742: Rev. Richard Bentley
1742: John Durant Breval
1742: Rev. William Broome
1742: Lord Chesterfield
1742: Thomas Cooke
1742: John Dennis
1742: Rev. Laurence Eusden
1742: Richard Flecknoe
1742: Charles Gildon
1742: Edward Howard
1742: Giles Jacob
1742: Rev. Luke Milbourne
1742: Bezaleel Morrice
1742: John Oldmixon
1742: Francis Quarles
1742: James Ralph
1742: Richard Savage
1742: Thomas Shadwell
1742: Elizabeth Thomas
1742: Leonard Welsted
1743: Richard Savage
1743: John Taylor the Water Poet
1744: John Hughes

As to poets, he [Pope] mentioned beside the former ignotos, Heath, William Habington, Esq. (third edition, 1640), Abraham Fraunce, high in Queen Elizabeth's time, and another hexameter translator of Ovid's Metamorphosis (Stanyhurst), and Walter Map, Archdeacon of Oxford, rather before Richard II's time.