William Webbe, A Discourse of English Poetry (1586)
Date
1586
Author
William
Webbe
Note: 15/10/2005
Book title
A Discourse of English Poetrie. Together, with the Authors iudgment, touching the reformation of our English Verse
Publication place
London
Printer
John Charlewood
Publisher
Robert Walley
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
poetry
Summary
Occasional logical definitions
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Poetrie called in Greeke ??ιτρια, beeing deriued from the Verbe ????, which signifieth in Latine facere in English, to make, may properly be defined, the arte of making: which word as it hath alwaies beene especially vsed of the best of our English Poets, to expresse yt very faculty of speaking or wryting Poetically: so doth it in deede containe most fitly the whole grace and property of the same, ye more fullye and effectually then any other English Verbe. (b2r)
sample: Poetrie called in Greeke ??ιτρια, beeing deriued from the Verbe ????, which signifieth in Latine facere in English, to make, may properly be defined, the arte of making: which word as it hath alwaies beene especially vsed of the best of our English Poets, to expresse yt very faculty of speaking or wryting Poetically: so doth it in deede containe most fitly the whole grace and property of the same, ye more fullye and effectually then any other English Verbe. (b2r)
Alston
VI.444
STC
25172
Modern editions
Webbe, William. A Discourse of English Poetrie, 1586. Ed. Edward Arber. English reprints, no. 26. Westminster: Constable, 1895.
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Haslewood, Joseph, ed. Ancient Critical Essays upon English Poets and Poesy. 2 vols. Vol. 1: George Puttenham, Arte of English poesie; Vol. 2: George Gascoigne, Certayne notes of instruction; William Webbe, A discourse of English poetrie; King James, A treatise of the airt of Scottis poesie; Sir John Harington, An apologie of poetrie; Francis Meres, A comparative discourse of our English poets; Thomas Campion, Observations in the art of English poesie; Samuel Daniel, A defence of ryme; Edmund Bolton, Hypercritica, or, A Rule of judgment for writing or reading our histories; Edmund Spenser and Gabriel Harvey, five letters. London: Triphook, 1811-15. II. view record
Magnus, Laurie, ed. Documents Illustrating Elizabethan Poetry by Sir Philip Sidney, George Puttenham and William Webbe. London: G. Routledge, 1906. view record
Smith, George Gregory, ed. Elizabethan Critical Essays. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1904. view record
Haslewood, Joseph, ed. Ancient Critical Essays upon English Poets and Poesy. 2 vols. Vol. 1: George Puttenham, Arte of English poesie; Vol. 2: George Gascoigne, Certayne notes of instruction; William Webbe, A discourse of English poetrie; King James, A treatise of the airt of Scottis poesie; Sir John Harington, An apologie of poetrie; Francis Meres, A comparative discourse of our English poets; Thomas Campion, Observations in the art of English poesie; Samuel Daniel, A defence of ryme; Edmund Bolton, Hypercritica, or, A Rule of judgment for writing or reading our histories; Edmund Spenser and Gabriel Harvey, five letters. London: Triphook, 1811-15. II. view record
Magnus, Laurie, ed. Documents Illustrating Elizabethan Poetry by Sir Philip Sidney, George Puttenham and William Webbe. London: G. Routledge, 1906. view record
Smith, George Gregory, ed. Elizabethan Critical Essays. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1904. view record
Criticisms
Howatt, A. P. R. "Joseph Webbe." Lexicon Grammaticorum. Ed. H. Stammerjohann. n.p.: n.p., 1996. 998-99.
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