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ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
John Taylor the Water Poet
William Winstanley
, in The Muses Cabinet (1655); Censura Literaria 5 (1807) 130.
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
William Winstanley:
1655: Samuel Sheppard
1655: John Taylor the Water Poet
1687: Francis Beaumont
1687: John Fletcher
1687: Ben Jonson
1687: Sir Thomas Overbury
Here lies the Water Poet, honest John,
Who rowed on the streams of Helicon;
Where, having many rocks and dangers past,
He at the haven of heaven arriv'd at last.