Critical Essays of the
seventeenth
century, vol.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07
1607.
Fuller Worthies Library.
1870.
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407
Loe, William (d. 1645). Songs of Sion. Hamburg, 1620. Fuller Worthies
Library Miscellanies. 1871.
Mason, John (16452-94). Spiritual Songs, or Songs of Praise. 1683.
More, Henry (1614-87). Psychozoia Platonica. 1642. Included in
Philosophicall Poems. 1647. Chertsey Worthies Library. 1878.
Norris, John (1657–1711), of Bemerton. Poems and Discourses. 1684.
Miscellanies, consisting of Poems, Essays, &c. 1687.
Collected Poems. Fuller Worthies Library. 1871.
Ross, Alexander (1590-1654). Mel Heliconium. 1642.
Rowlands, Samuel. See vol. iv, pp. 528, 529 of the present work, and add
A Theatre of Divine Recreation, 1605. (Poems chiefly on the Old Testa-
ment; the book is now lost; see Percy, Reliques, 1812, vol. 111, p. 161. )
Stradling, Sir John (1563-1637). Beati Pacifici: a Divine Poem. 1623.
Divine Poems. 1625. Both rptd in Grosart's Occasional Issues, 1883.
Sylvester, Joshuah (1563–1618). Lachrimae Lachrimarum. 1612. Chertsey
Worthies Library. 1880.
Weever, John (1576-1632). The Mirror of Martyrs. 1601.
An Agnus Dei. 1606.
Westmorland, Mildmay Fane 2nd earl of (d. 1665). Otia Sacra. 1648.
Grosart's Occasional Issues. 1879.
.
CHAPTER III
WRITERS OF THE COUPLET
ABRAHAM COWLEY
Poeticall Blossomes. 1633. 2nd ed. with the Tragicall History of Piramus
and Thisbe, and Sylva, or, Divers Copies of Verses, Made upon sundry
occasions. 3 parts. 1636. 3rd ed. enlarged. 1637.
Loves Riddle. A Pastorall Comædie; Written, At the time of his being
Kings Scholler in Westminster Schoole. 1638.
Naufragium Joculare. 1638.
A Satyre. The Puritan and the Papist. By a Scholler in Oxford. 1643.
The Mistresse: or, severall copies of love-verses. 1647.
The Guardian; a Comedie. Acted before Prince Charls his Highness at
Trinity-Colledg in Cambridge, upon the twelfth of March, 1641. 1650.
Poems. 4 parts, viz. 1, Miscellanies; 11, The Mistress; III, Pindarique Odes,
Written in Imitation of the Stile & Manner of the Odes of Pindar;
Iv, Davideis, a sacred poem of the troubles of David (with a Latin version
of Davideis, book 1]. 1656.
Ode; upon the blessed Restoration and Return of his sacred Majestie, Charls
the Second. 1660.
A Proposition for the Advancement of Experimental Philosophy. 1660.
A Discourse by way of Vision, concerning the government of Oliver Cromwell
[otherwise : A Vision concerning his late pretended Highness Cromwell
the Wicked). 1661.
A. Couleii Plantarum libri duo. 1662.
Cutter of Coleman-Street. A Comedy. 1663.
Verses lately written upon several occasions. 1663.
The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley. Consisting of Those which were
formerly Printed: and Those which he Design’d for the Press, now
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408
Bibliography
.
published out of the Authors Original Copies. 6 parts (viz. I, II, III,
IV as in 1656; v, Verses on several Occasions; vi, Several Discourses by
way of Essays, in Verse and Prose]. With An Account of the Life and
Writings of Mr Abraham Cowley, by T. Sprat (F. R. S. ). 1668. 2nd ed.
1668-9; 3rd ed. 1671-2; 4th ed. 1674; 5th ed. 1678; 6th ed. 1680-1, con-
tains Second Part of Works; 10th ed. 3 vols. 1707.
Poemata Latina (Plantarum libri sex; Miscell. lib. i). 1668. 2nd ed. 1678.
A Poem on the Late Civil War. 1679.
The Second Part of the Works, etc. Being what was written and published
by himself in his Younger Yearg. 4th ed. 1681. Added to the Works,
6th ed. 1680-1.
Spurious or Doubtful Verse.
A Satyre against Separatists; or, The Conviction of Chamber-Preachers,
and other Chismatiches, contrary to the Discipline of this our Pro-
testant Profession. By A. C. Generosus. 1642. Later eds. 1660, 1675.
The Foure Ages of England; or the Iron Age, with other select poems.
1705.
Modern Editions
Select Works, with preface and notes [by Hurd, R. ] 2 vols. 1772.
Works in Prose and Verse, with life by Johnson and Hurd's notes. 3 vols.
1809.
Complete Works. Ed. Grosart, A. B. 2 vols. Chertsey Worthies Library.
1876, 1881.
Poems: Miscellanies, The Mistress, Pindarique Odes, Davideis, Verses Written
on several occasions. Ed. Waller, A. R. Cambridge, 1905.
Essays, Plays and Sundry Verses. Ed. Waller, A. R. Cambridge, 1906.
SIR WILLIAM D'AVENANT
Madagascar, with other poems. 1638. 2nd ed. 1648.
London, King Charles his Augusta, or, City Royal, of the founders, the
names, and oldest honours of that City. An historicall and antiquarian
work. Written at first in heroicall Latin verse according to Greek,
Roman, British, English, and other antiquities and authorities, and now
translated into English couplets, with annotations. 1648.
A Discourse upon Gondibert, an heroick poem written by Sir W. D'Avenant,
with an answer to it by M' Hobbs. 1650.
Gondibert: an heroick Poem (with the Author's Preface to his most honour'd
friend Mr Hobs, and the Answer of Mr Hobbes to Sr Will. D'Avenant's
Preface before Gondibert). 1651.
Poem upon his sacred Majesties most happy return to his dominions. 1660.
Poem, to the King's most sacred Majesty. 1663.
The Works of Sr William D'avenant kl. Consisting of Those which were
formerly Printed, and Those which he design'd for the Press: now
published out of the Authors Originall Copies. 1673. (Contains, in
addition to Gondibert, Madagascar with other Poems, and the plays,
Poems on Several Occasions, Never before Printed, which include the
Entertainment at Rutland-House. )
Wit and Drollery: jovial poems, never before printed. 1656. (Contains
contributions by Sir W. D'Avenant. )
Complimentary Verses
Certain Verses, written by severall of the author's friends, to be reprinted
with the second edition of Gondibert. 1653.
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409
Modern Edition
Spingarn, J. E.
Critical Essays of the seventeenth century, vol. 11. (Pp. 1-67
contain a reprint of the preface to Gondibert with Hobbes's answer. )
SIR JOHN DENHAM
The Sophy. 1642.
Cooper's Hill, etc. 1642. 2nd ed. with additions, 1650; 3rd ed. (ed. J. B. ],
corrected, 1655.
Verses addressed to Sir R. Fanshaw upon his translation of Pastor Fido.
1647.
On Mr John Fletcher's Works (prefixed to first fol. of Beaumont and Fletcher.
1647).
The Anatomy of Play. 1651.
The Destruction of Troy. An essay on the second book of Virgil's Æneis,
written in the year 1636. 1656.
A Relation of a Quaker. 1659.
Poems and Translations, with the Sophy. 3 parts. 1667-8. 2nd ed. 1671;
3rd ed. 1684; 4th ed. (containing Cato Major of Old Age), 1703.
Cato Major of Old age. A Poem. 1669.
Horace, translated from Corneille (fifth act by Denham). 1678.
A Version of the Psalms of David. 1714.
Satires, etc. , attributed to Denham.
Second and Third Advices to a Painter. 1667.
The Famous Battel of the Catts, in the Province of Ulster. 1668.
The True Presbyterian without disguise: or, a Character of a Presbyterian's
ways and actions. 1680.
GEORGE SANDYS
A Relation of a Journey begun An. Dom. 1610. Foure Bookes. Containing
a description of the Turkish Empire, of Ægypt, of the Holy Land, of the
Remote parts of Italy, and Ilands adjoyning. 1615.
The first five books of 'Ovid's Metamorphoses,' &c. , by G. S. , &c. , second edition.
1621. Title, with other particulars, given in Brydges, Sir E. , Censura
Literaria, vi, 132; but no copy known.
Ovid's Metamorphoses, Englished by G. S. 1626, 1628.
Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologized, and Represented in Figures.
An Essay to the Translation of Virgil's Aeneis. Oxford, 1632, called
by Sandys the 2nd ed. 3rd ed. 1638; 4th ed. 1656. Hooper mentions a
1640 ed.
A Paraphrase upon the Psalms of David. 1636.
A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems. (Including the Psalms, with Lawes's
music. ) 1637-8.
Christ's Passion, a tragedy; with annotations. 1640, 1687.
A Paraphrase upon the Song of Solomon. 1641. Added to the other
Paraphrases in 1676.
Modern Edition
Poetical Works. Ed. Richard Hooper. 2 vols. 1872.
EDMUND WALLER
Speech against Prelates Innovations. 1641.
Speech in the Painted Chamber on the Impeachment of Crawley, 6 July 1641.
1641.
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The Workes of Edmond Waller Esquire, lately a Member of the Honourable
House of Commons, in this present Parliament. 1645.
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copy of his own hand-writing. 1645. Another ed. 1645.
A Panegyrick to my Lord Protector, of the present Greatness and joynt
Innterest of his Highness, and this Nation. 1655. Another ed. By
a Gentleman that loves the Peace, Union, and Prosperity of the English
Nation. 1655.
Upon the late Storme, and of the death of his Highnesse Ensuing the same.
(1658. ]
The Passion of Dido for Æneas, translated by Edmund Waller and Sidney
Godolphin. 1658.
To the King, Upon his Majesty's happy return. 1660.
To my Lady Morton, on New Year's Day, 1650. At the Louvre in Paris.
1661.
A Poem on St James's Park as lately improved by his Majesty. Of our late
War with Spaine and first Victory at sea near St Lugar. 1661.
To the Queen, Upon her Majesty's Birthday. 1663.
Poems, etc. never till now corrected and published with the approbation
of the Author. 1664. 3rd ed. with additions. 1668. 6th ed. contains the
altered Maid's Tragedy. 1693.
Upon her Majesty's New Buildings at Somerset House. 1665.
Instructions to a Painter, for the drawing of the posture and progress of his
Majesty's forces at sea, under the command of his Highness-royal;
together with the Battle and Victory obtained over the Dutch, June 3,
1665. 1666.
Divine Poems. 1685.
The Maid's Tragedy [by Beaumont and Fletcher] Altered, etc. 1690.
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Maid's Tragedy, And whatever of his is yet unprinted: Together with
some other Poems, Speeches, &c. , that were printed Severally and never
put into the First Collection of his Poems. (With preface attributed to
Francis Atterbury, Ch. Ch. Oxon. ) 1690.
Works in verse and prose, published by Mr [Elijah] Fenton. (With Fenton's
Observations on some of Waller's Poems. ) 1729.
The following verses were first printed among collections of complimentary
verses :
To the King, on his Return from Scotland. (Lat. elegiacs in Rex Redux,
Cambridge, 1633. )
To my Worthy Friend Mr George Sandys, on his sacred poems. [1638. ]
Upon Ben: Johnson, the most excellent of comic poets. Jonsonus Virbius,
1638.
Verses to Dr. George Rogers, on his taking the degree of Doctor of Physic at
Padua. [1646. ]
To Sir William Davenant, upon his two first books of Gondibert. [1650. ]
To my worthy Friend, Mr Wase, the translator of Gratius. [1654. ]
Ad Comitem Monumetensem de Bentivoglio Suo. [1654. ]
To his worthy Friend, Master Evelyn, upon his translation of Lucretius.
[1656. ]
To his worthy Friend, Sir Thos. Higgons, upon the translation of The
Venetian Triumph (1658. ]
Of Pandoras not being approved upon the stage as a Tragedy. (To Mr, i. e.
Sir William Killigrew, 1665. )
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411
Upon the Earl of Roscommon's translation of Horace, De Arte Poetica; and
of the use of poetry. [1680. ]
Several poems of Waller, including, Go, lovely Rose, were first published
in Witts Recreations. Selected from the finest Fancies of the Modern Muses,
1640; and two songs were printed with the poems of Francis Beaumont, 1653.
(See G. T. Drury's ed. of Waller. )
Modern Editions
Chalmers. English Poets, vol. viii, pp. 1-84. 1810. (With Johnson's Life,
and one or two pieces previously unprinted. )
The Poems of Edmund Waller. Ed. Drury, G. Thorn. 1893. (With life,
notes, and few pieces previously unprinted. )
GENERAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION
Addison, J. The Spectator (see, especially, No. 62).
Aubrey, John. Brief Lives, chiefly of Contemporaries, set down by John
Aubrey, between the Years 1669 & 1696, edited from the author's MSS
by Clark, Andrew.
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407
Loe, William (d. 1645). Songs of Sion. Hamburg, 1620. Fuller Worthies
Library Miscellanies. 1871.
Mason, John (16452-94). Spiritual Songs, or Songs of Praise. 1683.
More, Henry (1614-87). Psychozoia Platonica. 1642. Included in
Philosophicall Poems. 1647. Chertsey Worthies Library. 1878.
Norris, John (1657–1711), of Bemerton. Poems and Discourses. 1684.
Miscellanies, consisting of Poems, Essays, &c. 1687.
Collected Poems. Fuller Worthies Library. 1871.
Ross, Alexander (1590-1654). Mel Heliconium. 1642.
Rowlands, Samuel. See vol. iv, pp. 528, 529 of the present work, and add
A Theatre of Divine Recreation, 1605. (Poems chiefly on the Old Testa-
ment; the book is now lost; see Percy, Reliques, 1812, vol. 111, p. 161. )
Stradling, Sir John (1563-1637). Beati Pacifici: a Divine Poem. 1623.
Divine Poems. 1625. Both rptd in Grosart's Occasional Issues, 1883.
Sylvester, Joshuah (1563–1618). Lachrimae Lachrimarum. 1612. Chertsey
Worthies Library. 1880.
Weever, John (1576-1632). The Mirror of Martyrs. 1601.
An Agnus Dei. 1606.
Westmorland, Mildmay Fane 2nd earl of (d. 1665). Otia Sacra. 1648.
Grosart's Occasional Issues. 1879.
.
CHAPTER III
WRITERS OF THE COUPLET
ABRAHAM COWLEY
Poeticall Blossomes. 1633. 2nd ed. with the Tragicall History of Piramus
and Thisbe, and Sylva, or, Divers Copies of Verses, Made upon sundry
occasions. 3 parts. 1636. 3rd ed. enlarged. 1637.
Loves Riddle. A Pastorall Comædie; Written, At the time of his being
Kings Scholler in Westminster Schoole. 1638.
Naufragium Joculare. 1638.
A Satyre. The Puritan and the Papist. By a Scholler in Oxford. 1643.
The Mistresse: or, severall copies of love-verses. 1647.
The Guardian; a Comedie. Acted before Prince Charls his Highness at
Trinity-Colledg in Cambridge, upon the twelfth of March, 1641. 1650.
Poems. 4 parts, viz. 1, Miscellanies; 11, The Mistress; III, Pindarique Odes,
Written in Imitation of the Stile & Manner of the Odes of Pindar;
Iv, Davideis, a sacred poem of the troubles of David (with a Latin version
of Davideis, book 1]. 1656.
Ode; upon the blessed Restoration and Return of his sacred Majestie, Charls
the Second. 1660.
A Proposition for the Advancement of Experimental Philosophy. 1660.
A Discourse by way of Vision, concerning the government of Oliver Cromwell
[otherwise : A Vision concerning his late pretended Highness Cromwell
the Wicked). 1661.
A. Couleii Plantarum libri duo. 1662.
Cutter of Coleman-Street. A Comedy. 1663.
Verses lately written upon several occasions. 1663.
The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley. Consisting of Those which were
formerly Printed: and Those which he Design’d for the Press, now
## p. 408 (#424) ############################################
408
Bibliography
.
published out of the Authors Original Copies. 6 parts (viz. I, II, III,
IV as in 1656; v, Verses on several Occasions; vi, Several Discourses by
way of Essays, in Verse and Prose]. With An Account of the Life and
Writings of Mr Abraham Cowley, by T. Sprat (F. R. S. ). 1668. 2nd ed.
1668-9; 3rd ed. 1671-2; 4th ed. 1674; 5th ed. 1678; 6th ed. 1680-1, con-
tains Second Part of Works; 10th ed. 3 vols. 1707.
Poemata Latina (Plantarum libri sex; Miscell. lib. i). 1668. 2nd ed. 1678.
A Poem on the Late Civil War. 1679.
The Second Part of the Works, etc. Being what was written and published
by himself in his Younger Yearg. 4th ed. 1681. Added to the Works,
6th ed. 1680-1.
Spurious or Doubtful Verse.
A Satyre against Separatists; or, The Conviction of Chamber-Preachers,
and other Chismatiches, contrary to the Discipline of this our Pro-
testant Profession. By A. C. Generosus. 1642. Later eds. 1660, 1675.
The Foure Ages of England; or the Iron Age, with other select poems.
1705.
Modern Editions
Select Works, with preface and notes [by Hurd, R. ] 2 vols. 1772.
Works in Prose and Verse, with life by Johnson and Hurd's notes. 3 vols.
1809.
Complete Works. Ed. Grosart, A. B. 2 vols. Chertsey Worthies Library.
1876, 1881.
Poems: Miscellanies, The Mistress, Pindarique Odes, Davideis, Verses Written
on several occasions. Ed. Waller, A. R. Cambridge, 1905.
Essays, Plays and Sundry Verses. Ed. Waller, A. R. Cambridge, 1906.
SIR WILLIAM D'AVENANT
Madagascar, with other poems. 1638. 2nd ed. 1648.
London, King Charles his Augusta, or, City Royal, of the founders, the
names, and oldest honours of that City. An historicall and antiquarian
work. Written at first in heroicall Latin verse according to Greek,
Roman, British, English, and other antiquities and authorities, and now
translated into English couplets, with annotations. 1648.
A Discourse upon Gondibert, an heroick poem written by Sir W. D'Avenant,
with an answer to it by M' Hobbs. 1650.
Gondibert: an heroick Poem (with the Author's Preface to his most honour'd
friend Mr Hobs, and the Answer of Mr Hobbes to Sr Will. D'Avenant's
Preface before Gondibert). 1651.
Poem upon his sacred Majesties most happy return to his dominions. 1660.
Poem, to the King's most sacred Majesty. 1663.
The Works of Sr William D'avenant kl. Consisting of Those which were
formerly Printed, and Those which he design'd for the Press: now
published out of the Authors Originall Copies. 1673. (Contains, in
addition to Gondibert, Madagascar with other Poems, and the plays,
Poems on Several Occasions, Never before Printed, which include the
Entertainment at Rutland-House. )
Wit and Drollery: jovial poems, never before printed. 1656. (Contains
contributions by Sir W. D'Avenant. )
Complimentary Verses
Certain Verses, written by severall of the author's friends, to be reprinted
with the second edition of Gondibert. 1653.
## p. 409 (#425) ############################################
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409
Modern Edition
Spingarn, J. E.
Critical Essays of the seventeenth century, vol. 11. (Pp. 1-67
contain a reprint of the preface to Gondibert with Hobbes's answer. )
SIR JOHN DENHAM
The Sophy. 1642.
Cooper's Hill, etc. 1642. 2nd ed. with additions, 1650; 3rd ed. (ed. J. B. ],
corrected, 1655.
Verses addressed to Sir R. Fanshaw upon his translation of Pastor Fido.
1647.
On Mr John Fletcher's Works (prefixed to first fol. of Beaumont and Fletcher.
1647).
The Anatomy of Play. 1651.
The Destruction of Troy. An essay on the second book of Virgil's Æneis,
written in the year 1636. 1656.
A Relation of a Quaker. 1659.
Poems and Translations, with the Sophy. 3 parts. 1667-8. 2nd ed. 1671;
3rd ed. 1684; 4th ed. (containing Cato Major of Old Age), 1703.
Cato Major of Old age. A Poem. 1669.
Horace, translated from Corneille (fifth act by Denham). 1678.
A Version of the Psalms of David. 1714.
Satires, etc. , attributed to Denham.
Second and Third Advices to a Painter. 1667.
The Famous Battel of the Catts, in the Province of Ulster. 1668.
The True Presbyterian without disguise: or, a Character of a Presbyterian's
ways and actions. 1680.
GEORGE SANDYS
A Relation of a Journey begun An. Dom. 1610. Foure Bookes. Containing
a description of the Turkish Empire, of Ægypt, of the Holy Land, of the
Remote parts of Italy, and Ilands adjoyning. 1615.
The first five books of 'Ovid's Metamorphoses,' &c. , by G. S. , &c. , second edition.
1621. Title, with other particulars, given in Brydges, Sir E. , Censura
Literaria, vi, 132; but no copy known.
Ovid's Metamorphoses, Englished by G. S. 1626, 1628.
Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologized, and Represented in Figures.
An Essay to the Translation of Virgil's Aeneis. Oxford, 1632, called
by Sandys the 2nd ed. 3rd ed. 1638; 4th ed. 1656. Hooper mentions a
1640 ed.
A Paraphrase upon the Psalms of David. 1636.
A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems. (Including the Psalms, with Lawes's
music. ) 1637-8.
Christ's Passion, a tragedy; with annotations. 1640, 1687.
A Paraphrase upon the Song of Solomon. 1641. Added to the other
Paraphrases in 1676.
Modern Edition
Poetical Works. Ed. Richard Hooper. 2 vols. 1872.
EDMUND WALLER
Speech against Prelates Innovations. 1641.
Speech in the Painted Chamber on the Impeachment of Crawley, 6 July 1641.
1641.
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copy of his own hand-writing. 1645. Another ed. 1645.
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Nation. 1655.
Upon the late Storme, and of the death of his Highnesse Ensuing the same.
(1658. ]
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Godolphin. 1658.
To the King, Upon his Majesty's happy return. 1660.
To my Lady Morton, on New Year's Day, 1650. At the Louvre in Paris.
1661.
A Poem on St James's Park as lately improved by his Majesty. Of our late
War with Spaine and first Victory at sea near St Lugar. 1661.
To the Queen, Upon her Majesty's Birthday. 1663.
Poems, etc. never till now corrected and published with the approbation
of the Author. 1664. 3rd ed. with additions. 1668. 6th ed. contains the
altered Maid's Tragedy. 1693.
Upon her Majesty's New Buildings at Somerset House. 1665.
Instructions to a Painter, for the drawing of the posture and progress of his
Majesty's forces at sea, under the command of his Highness-royal;
together with the Battle and Victory obtained over the Dutch, June 3,
1665. 1666.
Divine Poems. 1685.
The Maid's Tragedy [by Beaumont and Fletcher] Altered, etc. 1690.
The Second Part of Mr Waller's Poems containing his alteration of the
Maid's Tragedy, And whatever of his is yet unprinted: Together with
some other Poems, Speeches, &c. , that were printed Severally and never
put into the First Collection of his Poems. (With preface attributed to
Francis Atterbury, Ch. Ch. Oxon. ) 1690.
Works in verse and prose, published by Mr [Elijah] Fenton. (With Fenton's
Observations on some of Waller's Poems. ) 1729.
The following verses were first printed among collections of complimentary
verses :
To the King, on his Return from Scotland. (Lat. elegiacs in Rex Redux,
Cambridge, 1633. )
To my Worthy Friend Mr George Sandys, on his sacred poems. [1638. ]
Upon Ben: Johnson, the most excellent of comic poets. Jonsonus Virbius,
1638.
Verses to Dr. George Rogers, on his taking the degree of Doctor of Physic at
Padua. [1646. ]
To Sir William Davenant, upon his two first books of Gondibert. [1650. ]
To my worthy Friend, Mr Wase, the translator of Gratius. [1654. ]
Ad Comitem Monumetensem de Bentivoglio Suo. [1654. ]
To his worthy Friend, Master Evelyn, upon his translation of Lucretius.
[1656. ]
To his worthy Friend, Sir Thos. Higgons, upon the translation of The
Venetian Triumph (1658. ]
Of Pandoras not being approved upon the stage as a Tragedy. (To Mr, i. e.
Sir William Killigrew, 1665. )
## p. 411 (#427) ############################################
Chapter III
411
Upon the Earl of Roscommon's translation of Horace, De Arte Poetica; and
of the use of poetry. [1680. ]
Several poems of Waller, including, Go, lovely Rose, were first published
in Witts Recreations. Selected from the finest Fancies of the Modern Muses,
1640; and two songs were printed with the poems of Francis Beaumont, 1653.
(See G. T. Drury's ed. of Waller. )
Modern Editions
Chalmers. English Poets, vol. viii, pp. 1-84. 1810. (With Johnson's Life,
and one or two pieces previously unprinted. )
The Poems of Edmund Waller. Ed. Drury, G. Thorn. 1893. (With life,
notes, and few pieces previously unprinted. )
GENERAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION
Addison, J. The Spectator (see, especially, No. 62).
Aubrey, John. Brief Lives, chiefly of Contemporaries, set down by John
Aubrey, between the Years 1669 & 1696, edited from the author's MSS
by Clark, Andrew.
