No More Learning

Written by a Person of Honour. 1696.
The Works of the most noble John Sheffield, late Duke of Buckingham.
Published by his Grace in his lifetime. 1721.
The Works of John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, Marquis of Normanby and
Duke of Buckingham. 2 vols. 1723.
Buckingham restord: being two Essays, which were castrated from the
Works of the late Duke of Buckingham. 1727.


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Humanum est Errare, or False steps on both sides. [This is in manuscript,
and is a critical account of the revolution of 1688. See Brit. Mus. Add.
MSS, 27382, f. 77. ]
His poems are also printed in such collections as the following:
Examen Miscellaneum. Consisting of Verse and Prose. Of Verse by The
Most Honourable the Marquis of Normanby, The late Lord Rochester,
Mr Waller, Mrs Wharton, Mr Wolseley, with Satires and Fables and
Translation from Anacreon. 1702.
A Collection of Poems: viz. , The Temple of Death, By the Marquis of
Normanby. An Epistle to the Earl of Dorset, By Charles Montague,
Lord Halifax. The Duel of the Stags, By Sir Robert Howard. With
Several Original Poems, Never before Printed by The Earl of Roscom-
mon, the Earl of Rochester, the Earl of Orrery, Sir Charles Sedley, etc. ,
etc. 1701.
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account of the pedigree of the Sheffield family. To which is annex'd his
grace's last will and testament. 1729.
Gildon, C. The Laws of Poetry as laid down by the Duke of Buckingham-
shire in his Essay on Poetry, by the Earl of Roscommon in his Essay on
Translated Verse, and by the Lord Lansdowne on Unnatural Flights in
Poetry, Explain'd and Illustrated. 1721.
CHARLES SACKVILLE, EARL OF DORSET
Dorset's poems have never been published separately. They are to be
found in the many Miscellanies of the period, such as:
A new Miscellany of Original Poems on Several Occasions. Written by the
Earl of Dorset, by Sir Charles Sedley, Sir F. Shepheard etc.
Ed.
Gildon, C. 1701.
The Works of the Most Celebrated Minor Poets, vol. 1. 1749.
The Works of the English Poets, vol. II. Edited by Dr Johnson. 1779.
For a sketch of Dorset's character see Prior's Dedicatory Epistle in
Poems on Several Occasions, 1718.
THOMAS FLATMAN (1637-1688)
Poems and Songs. 1674. 4th ed. 1686.
On the death of Thomas, Earl of Ossory. Ode. 1681.
Ovid's Epistles, translated by Flatman and others. 1683, 1701, 1712.
On the death of Charles II. Ode. 1685.
ANNE KILLIGREW (1660-1685)
Poems. 1686.
JOHN POMFRET (1667–1702)
Reason. 1700.
The Choice. 1701.
Miscellany poems on several occasions. 1702.
Poems. 1735, 1736, 1751, 1773.
JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER
A Satyr against Mankind. 1675.
The Enjoyment. 1679.
A Pastoral Dialogue between Alexis and Strephon written at the Bath. 1682.
Upon Nothing. A Poem now first correctly printed. 1711.
The above are broadsides. No collected edition of his poems was published
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death the ascription of poems was not always scrupulously exact. Many of
his pieces are to be found in the Poems upon Affairs of State and other
Miscellanies. The following editions of his works are noteworthy:
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of. Poems . . . on Several Occasions: with
Valentinian; A Tragedy. 1680, 1685, 1691, 1696.
Valentinian : A Tragedy. As 'tis Alter'd by the late Earl of Rochester, and
Acted at the Theatre-Royal. Together with a Preface concerning the
Author and his Writings. By one of his Friends. 1685.
The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the late Earls of
Rochester and Roscommon. With the Memoirs of the Life and Character
of the late Earl of Rochester, in a Letter to the Dutchess of Mazarine,
by Mons. St Evremont. To which is added A Curious Collection of
Original Poems and Translations by The Earl of Dorset, The Lord
S[ome]rs, The Lord H[alifa]x, The Lord G[ranvi]lle, Sir Roger l'Estrange,
Mr Otway, Mr Prior, Mr Walsh, Mr Smith, Mr Rowe, etc. 1707, 1709,
1711.
The Works of John Earl of Rochester, containing Poems on Several
Occasions: His Lordship’s Letters to Mr Savil and Mrs *** with
Valentinian, A Tragedy. 1714, 1732.
Rochester's Poems are to be found in the 10th volume of Johnson's Works
of the English Poets, 1779.
Sodom. 1684. No copy of the printed work is known. The play exists in
manuscript in the British Museum, Harl. MSS, 7312. See, also, Pisanus
Fraxi, Centuria Librorum Absconditorum, 1879.
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of. Letters to his wife and others. British
Museum, Harl. MSS, 7003; Add. MSS, 4162.
A Letter to Dr Burnet from the Earl of Rochester. 1680.
Biography and Criticism
Brown, Tom, and Gildon, Charles. A Select Collection of Original Letters
written by the most Eminent Persons on various Entertaining Subjects,
and on many Important Occasions: from the Reign of Henry the
Eighth, to the present Time. 1697.
Burnet, Gilbert. Some Passages of the Life and Death of the Right Honour-
able John Earl of Rochester, who died the 26th of July 1680. Written
by his own Direction on his Death-Bed, by Gilbert Burnet, D. D. 1680.
History of my own Time. A new edition based on that of M. J.
Routh D. D. Part 1. The Reign of Charles the Second. Ed. Airy, 0.
1897.
Dryden, John. The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John
Dryden, now first collected: with Notes and Illustrations: an account of
the Life and Writings of the Author, grounded on Original and Au-
thentick Documents, and A Collection of His Letters, The Greater Part
of which has never before been published. By Malone, Edmond. 1800.
Etheredge, Sir George, The Works of. Plays and Poems. Ed. Verity, A. W.
1888.
Forgues, E. D. John Wilmot, Comte de Rochester. Revue des Deux
Mondes, August and September, 1857.
Hamilton, Anthony. Mémoires du Chevalier De Grammont par Hamilton
d'après les meilleures éditions Anglaises accompagnés d'un Appendice
contenant des extraits du journal de Samuel Pepys et de celui de John
Evelyn sur les faits et les personnages des Mémoires de Grammont; des
Dépêches du Comte de Cominges Ambassadeur français in Londres.


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Par M. Gustave Brunet. Nouvelle édition. 1883.
Hamilton, Anthony. Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second, by Count
Grammont, with numerous additions and illustrations, as edited by
Sir Walter Scott. Also the Personal History of Charles, including the
King's own account of his escape and preservation after the battle of
Worcester, as dictated to Pepys and The Boscobel Tracts, or contem-
porary narratives of his Majesty's adventures, from the murder of his
father to the restoration. 1846.
Parsons, Robert. A Sermon Preached at the Funeral of the Right Honour-
able John Earl of Rochester. 1680.
Pepys, Samuel. The Diary of Samuel Pepys, M. A. , F. R. S. ; Clerk of the
Acts and Secretary to the Admiralty. Transcribed by Bright, Mynors,
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to the Present Day, vol. 11, From Shakespeare to Crabbe. 1908.
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMMON
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An Essay on Translated Verse. 1684. Second edition enlarg d. 1685.
A Prospect of Death: a Pindarique Essay. 1704.
A Collection of Divine Hymns and Poems. 1709.
Poems by the Earl of Roscommon. To which is added, An Essay on Poetry
by the Earl of Mulgrave, now Duke of Buckingham. Together with
Poems By Mr Richard Duke. 1717.
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the Earl of Roscommon. 1733.
The Christian Poet or Poems by Wentworth Dillon, the Earl of Roscommon.
1735.
[The poems of Roscommon are to be found in many collections and Miscel-
lanies, and, by a strange irony, are frequently printed with the works of
Rochester, from which in spirit and sympathy they are furthest removed.
]
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SIR CHARLES SEDLEY
Pompey the Great: a Tragedy. Translated out of French by certain Persons
of Honour. 1664.
The Mulberry Garden. A Comedy. 1668.
Antony and Cleopatra. A Tragedy. As it was acted at the Duke's Theatre.
1677.
Bellamira, or the Mistress. A Comedy. 1687.
The Happy Pair: or a Poem on Matrimony. 1702.
The Grumbler. A Comedy. 1719.
The Poetical Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Baronet, and his
Speeches in Parliament. Published from the original MS by Captain
Ayloffe. 1707.
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the Battle and Government of Bees, etc. With His Speeches, Political


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Pieces, Poems, Songs, and Plays. The greatest Part never printed
before . . . with Memoirs of the Author's Life, Written by an Eminent
Hand. 1778.
Biography and Criticism
Lissner, C. M. Sir Charles Sedley's Leben und Werke. 1905.
SIR FLEETWOOD SHEPPARD (1634-1698)
His poems have not been collected, but may be found in such collections
as State Poems, 1704, and A New Miscellany of Original Poems, 1701.
SIR EDWARD SHERBURNE (1618-1702)
Salmacis, Lyrian, and Sylvia . . . with other poems and translations. 1651.
The Tragedies of Seneca translated into English verse. 1701.
Miscellaneous Poems. 1819.
GEORGE STEPNEY (1663–1707)
Epistle to Charles Montague, Esq. 1691.
Poem to the memory of Queen Mary. 1695.
Poems. 1701. See, also, The Grove, 1721, and Johnson's collection.
WILLIAM WALSH (1663–1708)
Funeral elegy on the death of the Queen. 1695.
Works. 1736, 1802. See, also, the collection of Chalmers.
Bullen, A. H. Musa Proterva. 1889.
Courthope, W. J. History of English poetry, vol. III. 1903.
CHAPTER IX
THE PROSODY OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
A. General Works on Subject
Saintsbury, G. History of English Prosody, vol. II, bk. V, chaps. II-V;
bk. VI. 1908.
Historical Manual of English Prosody. ` 1910.
Omond, T. S. English Metrists. Oxford, 1907.
Schipper, Jakob. History of English versification. Oxford, 1910.
B. Original Texts
Beaumont, Sir John. To his Late Majesty James I Concerning the true
form of English Poetry. 1629, but written earlier. Rptd in Chalmers's
Poets, vol. vi.
Dryden, John. References scattered over Essays and Prefaces, collected in
Essays of John Dryden, ed. Ker, W. P. , Oxford, 1900.
J. D. Introduction to Joshua Poole's English Parnassus. 1656. 2nd ed.
1677.
Jonson, Benjamin. Slight references in English Grammar (1640): hardly
any in Explorata or Discoveries (1640); more in Conversations with
Drummond (1842). All reprinted in Cunningham's Works of Ben
Jonson, 1875.
Milton, John. Note on the Verse added in 1668 ed. of Paradise Lost: a few
glances in text of poems.
Woodford, Samuel. Introductions to Paraphrases of the Psalms, 1667, and
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CHAPTER X
MEMOIR AND LETTER WRITERS
I
JOHN EVELYN
The Miscellaneous Writings of John Evelyn, Esq. , F. R. S. , now first Col-
lected, with occasional Notes by William Upcott of the London Institu-
tion. 1825.
Uniform with the quarto edition of the Memoirs. Contents:
La Mothe Le Vayer, of Liberty and Servitude. 1649.
The State of France. 1652.
The Golden Book of St John Chrysostom. 1659.
A Character of England. 1659.
An Apology for the Royal Party. 1659.
The late news from Brussels unmasked. 1660.
Fumifugium. 1661.
Sculptura. 1662.
An Account of Architects and Architecture. 1697.
Kalendarium Hortense. 1664.
Public Employment preferred to Solitude. 1667.
History of the three late famous Impostors. 1669.
Navigation and Commerce. 1674.
Mundus Muliebris. 1690.
Acetaria: a Discourse of Sallets. 1699.
Also a series of Dedications, Prefaces, etc. to Evelyn's various works.
A. Original Works
1652. The State of France, as it stood in the IXth year of this present
Monarch Lewis XIIII. Rptd Misc. W. , 1825, pp. 39-45.
1659. A Character of England as it was lately presented in a Letter to a
Noble Man of France. 2nd ed. 1659. 3rd ed. with Reflections upon
Gallus Castratus. ' 1659.
No edition was published in 1651 as stated in List of Evelyn's Publi-
cations printed in the early editions of the Memoirs. Rptd in Misc. W.
pp. 141-167.
1659. An Apology for the Royal Party, written in a Letter to a person of
the late Councel of State, by a Lover of Peace and of his Country.
Three editions appeared in the same year. Bptd Miso. W. pp. 169–192.
1660. The late news from Brussels unmasked, and His Majesty vindicated
from the base calumny and scandal therein fixed on him. Rptd Misc. W.
pp. 193-204.
1661. A poem upon his Majesties Coronation the 23 of April 1661.
1661. Fumifugium: or the inconveniencie of the Aer and Smoak of London
dissipated. Rptd 1771 and in Misc. W. pp. 205-242.
1661. A Faithful and Impartial Narrative of what passed at the landing of
the Swedish Ambassador. Rptd in noirs, 2nd ed. vol 11, pp. 337–342.
1661. Tyrannus or the Mode, in a Discourse of Sumptuary Lawes. Rptd
with Evelyn's corrections in Memoirs, 2nd ed.