1651
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
Sir William Davenant
Samuel Sheppard
, "To the most excellent Poet, Sir William Davenant" Epigrams (1651) 39.
Commentary for
Sir William Davenant:
1629: Edward Hyde
1629: William Habington
1637: John Suckling
1638: John Suckling
1638: Thomas Carew
1638: William Habington
1650: Abraham Cowley
1650: Edmund Waller
1651: Samuel Sheppard
1652: Charles Cotton
1653: Sir John Denham
1659: Thomas Pecke
1670: Richard Flecknoe
1683: John Dryden
1690: Anthony Wood
1693: Rev. Samuel Wesley
1709: Thomas Hearne
1712: Anonymous
1734: Alexander Pope
1738: Anonymous
1764: David Erskine Baker
1766 ca.: Samuel Pegge
1779: Rev. Vicesimus Knox
1782: William Hayley
1789: Rev. Thomas Warton
1795: Dr. Robert Anderson
1800: Dr. Nathan Drake
1814: Isaac D'Israeli
1819: William Hazlitt
1819: Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1832: John Taylor Esq.
1837: Henry Hallam
1842: C. H. Timperley
1859: David Masson
1860: George Gilfillan
1880: Edmund Gosse
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
What though some shallow Sciolists dare prate,
And scoffing thee; Apollo nauseate:
What Venus hath snatch'd from thee, cruelly,
Minerva, with advantage doth supply:
Johnson is dead, let Sherly stoope to Fate,
And thou alone, art Poet Lawreate.