other)
_sonnetes
by W.
John Donne
_ &c.
1602.
The work was
republished in 1608, 1611, and 1621. It was reprinted by Sir
Samuel Egerton Brydges in 1814, by Sir Harris Nicolas in 1826,
and by A. H. Bullen in 1890.
_Englands Helicon_, printed in 1600, is a collection of songs
almost without exception in pastoral guise. The _Eclogue_
introducing the Somerset _Epithalamion_ is Donne's only
experiment in this favourite convention. Donne's friend
Christopher Brooke contributed an _Epithalamion_ to this
collection, but not until 1614. It is remarkable that Donne's
poem _The Baite_ did not find its way into _Englands Helicon_
which contains Marlowe's song and two variants on the theme.
In 1600 Eleazar Edgar obtained a licence to publish _Amours by
J. D. with Certen Oyr. _ (i. e.
other) _sonnetes by W. S. _ Were
Donne and Shakespeare to have appeared together? The volume
does not seem to have been issued. ]
[Footnote 3: e. g. Among Drummond of Hawthornden's
miscellaneous papers; in Harleian MS. 3991; in a manuscript in
Emmanuel College, Cambridge. ]
[Footnote 4: So on the first page, and the opening sentences
of the letter defend the use of the word 'Understanders'.
Nevertheless the second and third pages have the heading,
running across from one to the other, 'The Printer to the
Reader. ']
[Footnote 5: 'Will: Marshall sculpsit' implies that Marshall
executed the plate from which the whole frontispiece is taken,
including portrait and poem, not that he is responsible for
the portrait itself. To judge from its shape the latter would
seem to have been made originally from a medallion. Marshall,
the _Dictionary of National Biography_ says, 'floruit c.
1630,' so could have hardly executed a portrait of Donne in
1591. Mr. Laurence Binyon, of the Print Department of the
British Museum, thinks that the original may have been by
Nicholas Hilyard (see II.
republished in 1608, 1611, and 1621. It was reprinted by Sir
Samuel Egerton Brydges in 1814, by Sir Harris Nicolas in 1826,
and by A. H. Bullen in 1890.
_Englands Helicon_, printed in 1600, is a collection of songs
almost without exception in pastoral guise. The _Eclogue_
introducing the Somerset _Epithalamion_ is Donne's only
experiment in this favourite convention. Donne's friend
Christopher Brooke contributed an _Epithalamion_ to this
collection, but not until 1614. It is remarkable that Donne's
poem _The Baite_ did not find its way into _Englands Helicon_
which contains Marlowe's song and two variants on the theme.
In 1600 Eleazar Edgar obtained a licence to publish _Amours by
J. D. with Certen Oyr. _ (i. e.
other) _sonnetes by W. S. _ Were
Donne and Shakespeare to have appeared together? The volume
does not seem to have been issued. ]
[Footnote 3: e. g. Among Drummond of Hawthornden's
miscellaneous papers; in Harleian MS. 3991; in a manuscript in
Emmanuel College, Cambridge. ]
[Footnote 4: So on the first page, and the opening sentences
of the letter defend the use of the word 'Understanders'.
Nevertheless the second and third pages have the heading,
running across from one to the other, 'The Printer to the
Reader. ']
[Footnote 5: 'Will: Marshall sculpsit' implies that Marshall
executed the plate from which the whole frontispiece is taken,
including portrait and poem, not that he is responsible for
the portrait itself. To judge from its shape the latter would
seem to have been made originally from a medallion. Marshall,
the _Dictionary of National Biography_ says, 'floruit c.
1630,' so could have hardly executed a portrait of Donne in
1591. Mr. Laurence Binyon, of the Print Department of the
British Museum, thinks that the original may have been by
Nicholas Hilyard (see II.
