Joshua Poole, The English Parnassus (1657)
Date
1657
Author
Josua
Poole(alternate name for
Joshua
Poole
)
Lexicon title
The English Parnassus
Book title
The English Parnassus: Or, A Helpe to English Poesie. Containing A Collection Of all Rhyming Monosyllables, The choicest Epithets, and Phrases: With some General Forms upon all Occasions, Subjects, and Theams, Alphabetically digested : Together with A short Institution to English Poesie, by way of a Preface
Publication place
London
Publisher
Thomas Johnson
Text type
printed book
Genre
General English Dictionaries and Glossaries
Subject area
poetry
Summary
(a) The Alphabet of Monosylables (pp. 1-37; monosyllables in English); and (b) The English Parnassus (pp. 43-228; headwords and semantically-associated words)
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Atheists. Dull, desperate, dissolute, faithlesse, audacious, heady, daring, rash, presumptuous, adventurous, godlesse, damned, cursed, re- probate, wicked, impious, vitious, voluptuous, mercilesse, cruel, bloody, wretched.
sample: Atheists. Dull, desperate, dissolute, faithlesse, audacious, heady, daring, rash, presumptuous, adventurous, godlesse, damned, cursed, re- probate, wicked, impious, vitious, voluptuous, mercilesse, cruel, bloody, wretched.
Alston
VI.552-54
Wing
P2814
Other editions
1677: Wing P2815
Facsimiles
Poole, Josua. The English Parnassus, 1657. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 359. Menston: Scolar Press, 1972.
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