The Great Assises holden in
Parnassus
by Apollo and
his Assessours.
his Assessours.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07
Tudor Translations.
1900.
Rptd in Studies in Frankness,
1898.
Willcock, John. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie. 1899.
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CHAPTER XI
JACOBEAN AND CAROLINE CRITICISM
COLLECTED EDITION
Spingarn, J. E. Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century. 3 vols. Oxford,
1908-9. (A few paragraphs from the introduction to vol. I are embodied
in the text of the present work. )
ENGLISH CRITICS
Alexander, Sir William. Anacrisis: or a Censure of some Poets Ancient and
Modern. 1634 (? ). First published in the Works of William Drummond
of Hawthornden, Edinburgh, 1711. Rptd in Rogers, Memorials of the
Earl of Stirling, Edinburgh, 1877, and in Spingarn, as above.
Bacon, Francis. The Advancement of Learning. 1605. De Sapientia
Veterum. 1609. Essays. 1625. Various passages in other works.
Bolton, Edmund. Hypercritica: or a Rule of Judgment for writing or
reading our History's. 1618 (? ). First published by Anthony Hall at
the end of his Nicolai Triveti Annalium Continuatio, Oxford, 1722. Rptd
in Haslewood, Ancient Critical Essays upon English Poets and Poesy,
vol. 11, 1815, and in Spingarn, as above.
Chapman, George. Various prefaces to his translation of Homer (c. 1610-16).
Rptd in R. H. Shepherd's ed. of Chapman's Works, Homer's Iliad and
Odyssey, and in Spingarn, as above.
Collop, John. Poesis Rediviva: or Poesie Revivd. 1656. Epistle dedicatory
and various poems.
Cowley, Abraham. Preface to Poems. 1656. Rptd with a significant omis-
sion in Works, 1668, and in later eds. of Cowley; rptd from the ed. of
1656 in Spingarn, as above. Also the notes to Davideis. 1656. See ed.
in Cambridge English Classics, 2 vols. , 1905, 1906.
D'Avenant, Sir William. Preface to Gondibert: an Heroick Poem. First
printed separately at Paris in 1650, and then published with the poem,
London, 1651, and in his collected Works, 1673. Rptd in Spingarn.
Denham, Sir John. Preface to Fanshawe's translation of Guarini's Pastor
Fido. 1647. Preface to Essay on Translation. 1656.
Drayton, Michael. Epistle to Henry Reynolds, Esquire, of Poets and Poesie,
in The Battaile of Agincourt. . . . Elegies upon sundrie Occasions. 1627.
kptd in various eds. of Drayton, and in Spingarn, as above. Preface to
Englands Heroicall Epistles. 1630.
Hakewill, George. An Apologie or Declaration of the Power and Providence
of God in the Government of the World. 1627. 3rd ed. 1635.
Hales, John. The Method of reading profane History, in Golden Remains.
1659.
Hobbes, Thomas. Answer of Mr. Hobbes to $? Will. D'Avenant's Preface
before Gondibert. Ptd with Davenant's preface in 1650, with Gondibert
in 1651, and in D'Avenant's Works in 1673; rptd in Molesworth's ed. of
Hobbes's English Works, and in Spingarn, as above. To the Honourable
Edward Howard, Esq. , on his intended impression of his Poem of the
British Princes; prefixed to Howard's British Princes, 1669; rptd in
Molesworth, as above. To the Reader concerning the Vertues of an
Heroique Poem; prefixed to Hobbes's translation of the Odyssey, 1675;
rptd in Molesworth and in Spingarn, as above.
E. L. VII.
30
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have flow'd out of his daily Readings, or had their refluxe to his peculiar
Notions of the Times. 1620-35 (? ). Published posthumously at the end
of the second volume of the folio ed. of Jonson's Works, 1640–1, with
a separate title-page dated 1641. Annotated eds. by Schelling, F. E. ,
Boston, U. S. A. 1892; Gollancz, I. , in the Temple Classics, 1898; and
Castelain, Maurice, Paris, 1907; all the critical sections rptd in Spingarn,
as above. Notes of Ben Jonson's Conversations with William Drummond
of Hawthornden, January, 1619. Recorded by Drummond, and imper-
fectly printed in his Works, Edinburgh, 1711, with a brief Character
of several Authors by Drummond himself; first ed. from the original
MS by Laing, D. , for the Shakespeare Society in 1842; all the purely
critical passages rptd in Spingarn, as above. Many of the prefaces,
epistles dedicatory, prologues and epilogues of Jonson's plays, as well
as some of his poems, epigrams and passages in the plays themselves,
contain significant critical material; see, also, the critiques of Jonson's
work in Jonsonus Virbius, 1638, which indicate that he passed on his
interest in criticism to his epigones. See, also, ante, vol. iv, p. 524.
Milton, John. Areopagitica, 1644, and various passages in his other prose
writings. Preface to Paradise Lost. 1668. Preface to Samson Agonistes.
1671. The last two, and passages from The Reason of Church Govern-
ment, An Apology for Smectymnuus, and the treatise Of Education,
rptd in Spingarn, as above.
Novae Solymae libri sex. 1648. Trans. by Begley, W. , 1902, and ascribed
by him to Milton (? ). Contains numerous passages of a critical nature.
Peacham, Henry. The Compleat Gentleman. 1622. Other eds. 1634, 1661;
rptd from the ed. of 1634, with introduction by Gordon, G. S. , Oxford,
1906. See, especially, chap. vi, Of stile in speaking, writing, and reading
History, and chap. x, Of Poetry; the latter rptd in Spingarn, as above.
Poole, Joshua. The English Parnassus. 1656. 2nd ed. 1677. On the
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Nature and Value of true Poesy and Depth of the Ancients above our
Moderne Poets. 1632(? ). Entered on the Stationers' register, 12 August
1632. Rptd in Spingarn, as above.
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ing the historicall Mysteries and mystical Histories of the ancient Greek
and Latine Poets. 1647. 6th ed. 1675. Mel Heliconium, or Poeticall
Honey gathered out of the weeds of Parnassus. 1642. Gnomologicon
Poëticum, hoc est, sententiae veterum Poëtarum insigniores in ordinem
alphabeticum digestae. 1647.
Sheppard, Samuel. The Socratick Session: or the Arraignment and Con-
viction of Julius Scaliger, in Epigrams. 1651.
Smith, John. The Mysterie of Rhetorique Unrail'd. 1657.
Suckling, Sir John. A Session of the Poets. 1637 (? ). Published in Frag-
menta Aurea, 1646. Rptd in all eds. of Suckling, and in Spingarn, as above.
Webster, John. Preface to The White Divel. 1612. Rptd in all eds. of
Webster, and in Spingarn, as above.
Wilkins, John. Ecclesiastes, or a Discourse concerning the Gift of Preach-
ing as it fals under the Rules of Art. 1646. 9th ed. 1695.
(? ) Wither, George.
The Great Assises holden in Parnassus by Apollo and
his Assessours. 1645. Rptd by the Spenser Society, 1885.
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On the numerous works of this period connected with the stage controversy
(e. g. Heywood's Apology for Actors, 1612; Green's Refutation of the Apology
for Actors, 1615; A Short Treatise against Stage Plays, 1623; Prynne's
Histriomastix, 1632, etc. ), see Thompson, E. N. S. , The Controversy between
the Puritans and the Stage, New York, 1903; also vol. vi, chap. xiv of the
present work, with its bibliography. On the literary controversy evoked by
D'Avenant's Gondibert, see D’Israeli’s Quarrels of Authors.
Lost works : Ben Jonson's Observations on Horace his Art of Poetry
(see Spingarn, as above, 1, 10, 212, 214, 220); Cowley's Discourse concerning
Style (see ibid. 11, 142); Crashaw's writing against Playg' (see Selden, Table
Talk, s. v. Poetry).
CONTEMPORARY CONTINENTAL Critics (1560-1660)
France
Aubignac, Abbé d'. La Pratique du Théâtre. 1657.
Balzac, J. L. Guez de. Euvres. 1665.
Chapelain, J. Preface to Marino's Adone. 1623. Les Sentiments de
PAcadémie sur le Cid. 1638.
Colletet, G. L’Art poëtique. 1658.
Costar, P. Défense des Ouvrages de Voiture. 1653.
Deimier, P. de. L'Académie de l'Art poëtique. 1610.
Fancan. Le Tombeau des Romans. 1626.
Fauchet, Claude. (Euvres. 1610.
Gasté, A. (editor). La Querelle du Cid. 1898.
Godean, A. Discours sur les (Euvres de Malherbe. 1630.
Gournay, Mlle de. L'Ombre. 1626.
La Mesnardière, J. de. La Poëtique. 1640.
La Mothe le Vayer, F. de. Euvres. 3rd ed. 1661-2.
Laudun d'Aigaliers, P. de. L'Art poëtique françois. 1598.
Le Moyne, P. Traité du Poëme héroïque, in Saint-Louis. 1653.
Malherbe, F. de. (Euvres. Ed. by Lalanne. 1862.
Mambrun, P. De Poemate Epico. 1652.
Montaigne, M. de. Essais. 1588.
Ogier, F. Preface to Jean de Schelandre's Tyr et Sidon. 1628.
Pasquier, É. Euvres. 1723.
Pellisson, P. Histoire de l'Académie françoise. 1653. Trans. by H, R.
1657.
Ronsard, P. de. Euvres. Ed. by Blanchemain. 1857–67.
Sarasin, J. F. Euvres. 1656.
Scudéry, G. de. Preface to Alaric. 1654.
Scudéry, Mlle de. Preface to Ibrahim ou l'illustre Bassa. 1641.
Vaugelas, C. F. de. Remarques sur la Langue françoise. 1647.
Vauquelin de la Fresnaye, J. L'Art poëtique. 1605. Ed. by Pellissier, 1885.
Holland and Germany
Büchler, J. Sacrarum Profanarumque Phrasium Poeticarum Thesaurus.
11th ed. London. 1632.
Fabricius, G. De Re Poetica. 1595.
Heinsius, D. De Constitutione Tragoediae. 1610. Q. Horatii Flacci Opera.
1612.
Opitz, M. Buch von der deutschen Poeterei. 1624.
Pontanus, J. Poeticarum Institutionum libri tres. 1594.
Rodenburg, T. Eglentiers Poëtens Borst-weringh. 1619. (This is a Dutch
paraphrase of Sidney's Defence of Poesie. )
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CHAPTER XI
JACOBEAN AND CAROLINE CRITICISM
COLLECTED EDITION
Spingarn, J. E. Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century. 3 vols. Oxford,
1908-9. (A few paragraphs from the introduction to vol. I are embodied
in the text of the present work. )
ENGLISH CRITICS
Alexander, Sir William. Anacrisis: or a Censure of some Poets Ancient and
Modern. 1634 (? ). First published in the Works of William Drummond
of Hawthornden, Edinburgh, 1711. Rptd in Rogers, Memorials of the
Earl of Stirling, Edinburgh, 1877, and in Spingarn, as above.
Bacon, Francis. The Advancement of Learning. 1605. De Sapientia
Veterum. 1609. Essays. 1625. Various passages in other works.
Bolton, Edmund. Hypercritica: or a Rule of Judgment for writing or
reading our History's. 1618 (? ). First published by Anthony Hall at
the end of his Nicolai Triveti Annalium Continuatio, Oxford, 1722. Rptd
in Haslewood, Ancient Critical Essays upon English Poets and Poesy,
vol. 11, 1815, and in Spingarn, as above.
Chapman, George. Various prefaces to his translation of Homer (c. 1610-16).
Rptd in R. H. Shepherd's ed. of Chapman's Works, Homer's Iliad and
Odyssey, and in Spingarn, as above.
Collop, John. Poesis Rediviva: or Poesie Revivd. 1656. Epistle dedicatory
and various poems.
Cowley, Abraham. Preface to Poems. 1656. Rptd with a significant omis-
sion in Works, 1668, and in later eds. of Cowley; rptd from the ed. of
1656 in Spingarn, as above. Also the notes to Davideis. 1656. See ed.
in Cambridge English Classics, 2 vols. , 1905, 1906.
D'Avenant, Sir William. Preface to Gondibert: an Heroick Poem. First
printed separately at Paris in 1650, and then published with the poem,
London, 1651, and in his collected Works, 1673. Rptd in Spingarn.
Denham, Sir John. Preface to Fanshawe's translation of Guarini's Pastor
Fido. 1647. Preface to Essay on Translation. 1656.
Drayton, Michael. Epistle to Henry Reynolds, Esquire, of Poets and Poesie,
in The Battaile of Agincourt. . . . Elegies upon sundrie Occasions. 1627.
kptd in various eds. of Drayton, and in Spingarn, as above. Preface to
Englands Heroicall Epistles. 1630.
Hakewill, George. An Apologie or Declaration of the Power and Providence
of God in the Government of the World. 1627. 3rd ed. 1635.
Hales, John. The Method of reading profane History, in Golden Remains.
1659.
Hobbes, Thomas. Answer of Mr. Hobbes to $? Will. D'Avenant's Preface
before Gondibert. Ptd with Davenant's preface in 1650, with Gondibert
in 1651, and in D'Avenant's Works in 1673; rptd in Molesworth's ed. of
Hobbes's English Works, and in Spingarn, as above. To the Honourable
Edward Howard, Esq. , on his intended impression of his Poem of the
British Princes; prefixed to Howard's British Princes, 1669; rptd in
Molesworth, as above. To the Reader concerning the Vertues of an
Heroique Poem; prefixed to Hobbes's translation of the Odyssey, 1675;
rptd in Molesworth and in Spingarn, as above.
E. L. VII.
30
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Jonson, Ben. Timber, or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter, as they
have flow'd out of his daily Readings, or had their refluxe to his peculiar
Notions of the Times. 1620-35 (? ). Published posthumously at the end
of the second volume of the folio ed. of Jonson's Works, 1640–1, with
a separate title-page dated 1641. Annotated eds. by Schelling, F. E. ,
Boston, U. S. A. 1892; Gollancz, I. , in the Temple Classics, 1898; and
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of Hawthornden, January, 1619. Recorded by Drummond, and imper-
fectly printed in his Works, Edinburgh, 1711, with a brief Character
of several Authors by Drummond himself; first ed. from the original
MS by Laing, D. , for the Shakespeare Society in 1842; all the purely
critical passages rptd in Spingarn, as above. Many of the prefaces,
epistles dedicatory, prologues and epilogues of Jonson's plays, as well
as some of his poems, epigrams and passages in the plays themselves,
contain significant critical material; see, also, the critiques of Jonson's
work in Jonsonus Virbius, 1638, which indicate that he passed on his
interest in criticism to his epigones. See, also, ante, vol. iv, p. 524.
Milton, John. Areopagitica, 1644, and various passages in his other prose
writings. Preface to Paradise Lost. 1668. Preface to Samson Agonistes.
1671. The last two, and passages from The Reason of Church Govern-
ment, An Apology for Smectymnuus, and the treatise Of Education,
rptd in Spingarn, as above.
Novae Solymae libri sex. 1648. Trans. by Begley, W. , 1902, and ascribed
by him to Milton (? ). Contains numerous passages of a critical nature.
Peacham, Henry. The Compleat Gentleman. 1622. Other eds. 1634, 1661;
rptd from the ed. of 1634, with introduction by Gordon, G. S. , Oxford,
1906. See, especially, chap. vi, Of stile in speaking, writing, and reading
History, and chap. x, Of Poetry; the latter rptd in Spingarn, as above.
Poole, Joshua. The English Parnassus. 1656. 2nd ed. 1677. On the
preface by J. D. , being a Short Illustration of English Poesy, see
Saintsbury, History of English Prosody, 11, 345-8.
Reynolds, Henry. Mythomystes, wherein a short Survay is taken of the
Nature and Value of true Poesy and Depth of the Ancients above our
Moderne Poets. 1632(? ). Entered on the Stationers' register, 12 August
1632. Rptd in Spingarn, as above.
Ross, Alexander. Mystagogus Poeticus, or the Muses Interpreter, explain-
ing the historicall Mysteries and mystical Histories of the ancient Greek
and Latine Poets. 1647. 6th ed. 1675. Mel Heliconium, or Poeticall
Honey gathered out of the weeds of Parnassus. 1642. Gnomologicon
Poëticum, hoc est, sententiae veterum Poëtarum insigniores in ordinem
alphabeticum digestae. 1647.
Sheppard, Samuel. The Socratick Session: or the Arraignment and Con-
viction of Julius Scaliger, in Epigrams. 1651.
Smith, John. The Mysterie of Rhetorique Unrail'd. 1657.
Suckling, Sir John. A Session of the Poets. 1637 (? ). Published in Frag-
menta Aurea, 1646. Rptd in all eds. of Suckling, and in Spingarn, as above.
Webster, John. Preface to The White Divel. 1612. Rptd in all eds. of
Webster, and in Spingarn, as above.
Wilkins, John. Ecclesiastes, or a Discourse concerning the Gift of Preach-
ing as it fals under the Rules of Art. 1646. 9th ed. 1695.
(? ) Wither, George.
The Great Assises holden in Parnassus by Apollo and
his Assessours. 1645. Rptd by the Spenser Society, 1885.
## p. 467 (#483) ############################################
Chapter XI
467
On the numerous works of this period connected with the stage controversy
(e. g. Heywood's Apology for Actors, 1612; Green's Refutation of the Apology
for Actors, 1615; A Short Treatise against Stage Plays, 1623; Prynne's
Histriomastix, 1632, etc. ), see Thompson, E. N. S. , The Controversy between
the Puritans and the Stage, New York, 1903; also vol. vi, chap. xiv of the
present work, with its bibliography. On the literary controversy evoked by
D'Avenant's Gondibert, see D’Israeli’s Quarrels of Authors.
Lost works : Ben Jonson's Observations on Horace his Art of Poetry
(see Spingarn, as above, 1, 10, 212, 214, 220); Cowley's Discourse concerning
Style (see ibid. 11, 142); Crashaw's writing against Playg' (see Selden, Table
Talk, s. v. Poetry).
CONTEMPORARY CONTINENTAL Critics (1560-1660)
France
Aubignac, Abbé d'. La Pratique du Théâtre. 1657.
Balzac, J. L. Guez de. Euvres. 1665.
Chapelain, J. Preface to Marino's Adone. 1623. Les Sentiments de
PAcadémie sur le Cid. 1638.
Colletet, G. L’Art poëtique. 1658.
Costar, P. Défense des Ouvrages de Voiture. 1653.
Deimier, P. de. L'Académie de l'Art poëtique. 1610.
Fancan. Le Tombeau des Romans. 1626.
Fauchet, Claude. (Euvres. 1610.
Gasté, A. (editor). La Querelle du Cid. 1898.
Godean, A. Discours sur les (Euvres de Malherbe. 1630.
Gournay, Mlle de. L'Ombre. 1626.
La Mesnardière, J. de. La Poëtique. 1640.
La Mothe le Vayer, F. de. Euvres. 3rd ed. 1661-2.
Laudun d'Aigaliers, P. de. L'Art poëtique françois. 1598.
Le Moyne, P. Traité du Poëme héroïque, in Saint-Louis. 1653.
Malherbe, F. de. (Euvres. Ed. by Lalanne. 1862.
Mambrun, P. De Poemate Epico. 1652.
Montaigne, M. de. Essais. 1588.
Ogier, F. Preface to Jean de Schelandre's Tyr et Sidon. 1628.
Pasquier, É. Euvres. 1723.
Pellisson, P. Histoire de l'Académie françoise. 1653. Trans. by H, R.
1657.
Ronsard, P. de. Euvres. Ed. by Blanchemain. 1857–67.
Sarasin, J. F. Euvres. 1656.
Scudéry, G. de. Preface to Alaric. 1654.
Scudéry, Mlle de. Preface to Ibrahim ou l'illustre Bassa. 1641.
Vaugelas, C. F. de. Remarques sur la Langue françoise. 1647.
Vauquelin de la Fresnaye, J. L'Art poëtique. 1605. Ed. by Pellissier, 1885.
Holland and Germany
Büchler, J. Sacrarum Profanarumque Phrasium Poeticarum Thesaurus.
11th ed. London. 1632.
Fabricius, G. De Re Poetica. 1595.
Heinsius, D. De Constitutione Tragoediae. 1610. Q. Horatii Flacci Opera.
1612.
Opitz, M. Buch von der deutschen Poeterei. 1624.
Pontanus, J. Poeticarum Institutionum libri tres. 1594.
Rodenburg, T. Eglentiers Poëtens Borst-weringh. 1619. (This is a Dutch
paraphrase of Sidney's Defence of Poesie. )
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Boccalini, T. De' Ragguagli di Parnaso. 1612. Trans. by the earl of
Monmouth. 1656.
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Minozzi, P. F. Sfogamenti d'Ingegno. 1641.
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