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NOTES TO PP. 69–77
The current editors of Dryden identify Elkanah Settle (1648–1724) as the referent.
See The Works of John Dryden, ed. H.T.Swedenberg, Jr., et al., Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press, 1972, vol. 2, pp. 332–3. As was true for Dryden of
the Essay of Dramatic Poetry quoted below, Wither can easily become synonymous
with all that high art is not.
26 Dryden, The Works of John Dryden 17 (1971):12. Dryden is speaking only indirectly
about Wither; his direct target is probably Robert Wild. I owe this point to Margery
Kingsley.
27 “On the Poetical Works of George Wither,” in Charles Lamb, Poems, Plays and
Miscellaneous Essays, 2 vols, Boston, MA: C.C.Brainard, n.d., vol. II, p. 241.
28 Allan Pritchard, “Abuses Stript and Whipt and Wither’s Imprisonment,” RES 14
(1963):337–45.
29 The Poetry of George Wither, ed. Frank Sidgwick, 2 vols, London: A.H.Bullen, 1902,
vol. I, p. 73. Unless otherwise indicated, all references to Wither’s poetry will be to
this edition.
30 Allan Pritchard, “George Wither’s Quarrel with the Stationers: An Anonymous Reply
to The Schollers Purgatory,” Studies in Bibliography 16 (1963):27–42; and Norman
E.Carlson, “Wither and the Stationers,” Studies in Bibliography 19 (1966): 210–15.
31 See also Thomas O.Calhoun, “George Wither: Origins and Consequences of a Loose
Poetics,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 16 (1974):266–79.
32 From Time Vindicated in Ben Jonson, ed, C.H.Herford, Percy Simpson and Evelyn
Simpson, 11 vols, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925–52, vol. 7, p. 659.
33 Wither, Hallelujah, or Britain’s Second Remembrancer, ed. Edward Farr, London: John
Russell Smith, 1857, p. 108.
34 Wither, Britain’s Remembrancer, Containing a Narration of the Plague lately Past,
London, 1628, repr. Publications of the Spenser Society nos 28–9, Manchester: Charles
Simms, 1880, pp. 232–3.
35 Britain’s Remembrancer, p. 85.
36 ibid., pp. 235–6.
37 A partial attempt was made by Charles S.Hensley, The Later Career of George Wither,
The Hague: Mouton & Co., 1969. David Norbrook has written two important essays
on Wither’s later writings: “Levelling Poetry: George Wither and the English
Revolution, 1642–1649” (cited earlier), and “‘Safest in Storms’: George Wither in the
1650s” in Heart of the Heartless World: Essays in Cultural Resistance, ed. David Margolies
and Maroula Joannou, London: Pluto Press, 1995. See also Allan Pritchard, “George
Wither: The Poet as Prophet,” Studies in Philology 59 (1962):211–30.
38 Norbrook, “Levelling Poetry: George Wither and the English Revolution, 1642–
1649,” p. 220. The remarks that follow are based on points made by Norbrook in his
two essays.
39 Michael McKeon, The Origins of the Novel, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1987, chaps 1, 2.
40 Westrow Revived, repr. in Publications of the Spenser Society no. 16, Manchester:
Charles Simms, 1874, p. 47.
41 ibid., p. 32.
42 ibid., pp. 16–17.
43 Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, ed. Philip Bliss, 4 vols, 1813–20, London: F.C. and J.
Rivington, vol. III, p. 192. Quarles’s association with Puritanism is rejected by
Michael Bath, Speaking Pictures: English Emblem Books and Renaissance Culture,
London: Longman, 1994, p. 200.
44 Newdigate, Michael Drayton and His Circle, p. 221.
45 John Horden, “Francis Quarles (1592–1644): A Bibliography of his Works to the
Year 1800,” Oxford Bibliographical Society n.s. 2 (1948):2.
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