1645
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
John Taylor the Water Poet
George Wither
, in Great Assises holden in Parnassus (1645) 9.
Commentary for
John Taylor the Water Poet:
1612: Nicholas Breton
1612: Samuel Rowlands
1614: Rev. Robert Anton
1615: John Davies of Hereford
1615: Thomas Dekker
1616: Rev. Robert Anton
1622: Richard Hatton
1633: Martin Parker
1640: Ben Jonson
1645: Samuel Sheppard
1645: George Wither
1651: Samuel Sheppard
1655: William Winstanley
1743: Alexander Pope
1758: Anonymous
1797: George Dyer
1808: Anonymous
1824: Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1834: Robert Aris Willmott
1847: Edward Farr
1859: David Masson
1866: John Payne Collier
Commentary by
George Wither:
1613: Michael Drayton
1614: Christopher Brooke
1616: William Browne of Tavistock
1623: Rev. Charles Butler
1625: Christopher Brooke
1633: Sir Philip Sidney
1645: William Camden
1645: Michael Drayton
1645: Thomas May
1645: Joshua Sylvester
1645: John Taylor the Water Poet
John Taylour, then the Courts shrill Chanticleere,
Did summon all the Jurours to appeare:
Hee had the Cryers place: an office fit,
For him that hath a better voyce, then wit.