1606
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
Sir John Davies
Anonymous, in Second Part of Returne from Pernassus (1606) Sig. B2.
Commentary for
Sir John Davies:
1598: Thomas Bastard
1598: Rev. John Marston
1606: Anonymous
1610 ca.: Anonymous
1611: John Davies of Hereford
1611 ca.: John Davies of Hereford
1625: Sir John Harington
1697: Nahum Tate
1751: Rev. Thomas Birch
1773: Anonymous
1773: Rev. John Langhorne
1799: William Seward
1800: Dr. Nathan Drake
1801: George Ellis
1804: Isaac D'Israeli
1819: William Hazlitt
1819: Thomas Campbell
1826: Richard Ryan
1834: Robert Aris Willmott
1836: Richard Cattermole
1837: Henry Hallam
1845: Edward Farr
1860: George Gilfillan
1866: John Payne Collier
1880: Mary A. Ward
1882: Epes Sargent
1895: Oliver Elton
Acute John Davis, I affect thy rymes,
That jerck in hidden charmes these looser times:
Thy plainer verse, thy unaffected vaine,
Is grac'd with a faire and a sooping traine.