Henry Peacham, The Garden of Eloquence (1577)
Date
1577
Author
(alternate name for
Henry
Peacham the elder
)
Note: 12/10/2005
Book title
The Garden of Eloquence Conteyning the Figures of Grammer and Rhetorick, from whence maye bee gathered all manner of Flowers, Coulors, Ornaments, Exornations, Formes and Fashions of speech, very profitable for all those that be studious of Eloquence, and that reade most Eloquent Poets and Orators, and also helpeth much for the better vnderstanding of the holy Scriptures
Publication place
London
Publisher
H. Iackson
Transcription source
EEBO
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
rhetoric
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
160
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: A Trope, is an alteration of a worde or sentence, from the proper and naturall signification, to an other not proper, but yet nye and likely. (b1v)
sample: A Trope, is an alteration of a worde or sentence, from the proper and naturall signification, to an other not proper, but yet nye and likely. (b1v)
Alston
VI, 21
Schafer
1577 P
STC
19497
Other editions
See 1593 (LEME #209)
Facsimiles
Peacham, Henry. The Garden of Eloquence, 1577 . English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 267. Menston: Scolar Press, 1971.
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Criticisms
Young, Alan R. "Henry Peacham, Author of 'The Garden of Eloquence' (1577): A Biographical Note." New series. Notes and Queries 24.6 (1977): 503-07.
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