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A comparative discourse of our English Poets, with the Greeke, Latine, and Italian Poets
sind hier wiedergegeben.
Für die folgende Analyse (siehe Shapiro-Tagebuch / Abschnitt
29)
sind die folgenden vier Abschnitte (Nr. 7, 34, 39 und 46) von
besonderem Interesse.:
7.
AS these Neoterickes 1. Iovianus Pontanus 2. Politianus 3. Marullus Tarchaniota 4. the two Stroza, the father and the son, 5. Palingenius 6. Mantuanus 7. Philelphus 8. Quintianus Stoa 9. Germanus Brixius have obtained renown and good place among the auncient Latine Poets: |
SO also these English men being Latine Poets 1. Gualter Haddon 2. Nicholas Car 3. Gabriel Harvey 4. Christopher Ocland 5. Thomas Newton with his Leyland 6. Thomas Watson 7. Thomas Campion 8. Brunswerd & 9. Willey, have attained good report and honorable advancement in the Latin Empyre |
34.
The best Poets for Comedy among the Greeks are these 1. Menander 2. Aristophanes 3. Eupolis Atheniensis 4. Alexius Terius 5. Nicostratus 6. Amipsias Atheniensis 7. Anaxandrides Rhodius 8. Aristonymus 9. Archippus Atheniensis and 10. Callias Atheniensis and among the Latines 11. Plautus 12. Terence 13. Naevius 14. Sext. Turpilius 15. Licinius Imbrex and 16. Virgilius Romanus:
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SO the best for Comedy amongst us bee 1. Edward Earle of Oxforde 2. Doctor Gager of Oxforde 3. Maister Rowley, once a rare Scholler of learned Pembrooke Hall in Cambridge 4. Maister Edwardes one of her Maiesties Chappell, 5. eloquent and wittie Iohn Lilly 6. Lodge 7. Gascoyne 8. Greene 9. Shakespeare 10. Thomas Nashe 11. Thomas Heywood 12. Anthony Mundy, our best plotter 13. Chapman 14. Porter 15. Wilson 16. Hathway 17. Henry Chettle |
39.
These and many other Epigrammatists the Latin tongue hath 1. Q. Catulus 2. Porcius Licinius 3. Quintus Cornificius 4. Martial 5. Cn. Getulicus, and 6. wittie sir Thomas Moore:
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SO in English we have these, 1. Heywood 2. Drante 3. Kendal 4. Bastard 5. Davies * |
* Stands for two contemporaneous epigrammatists, Sir John Davies (1569-1626) and John Davies of Hereford (?1565-1618).
46.
AS 1. Terence for his translations out of Appolodorus & Menander, and 2. Aquilus for his translation out of Menander, and 3. C. Germanicus Augustus for his out of Aratus, and 4. Ausonius for his translated Epigrams out of Greeke, and 5. Doctor Johnson for his Frogge-fight out of Homer, and 6. Watson for his Antigone out of Sophocles, have good commendations: |
SO these versifiers fot their learned translations are of good note among us, 1. Phaere for Virgils Aeneads, 2. Golding for Ovids Metamorphosis 3. Harington for his Orlando Furioso 4. the translators of Senecas Tragedies 5. Barnabe Googe for Palingenius 6. Turbervile for Ovids Epistles and Mantuan and 7. Chapman for his inchoate Homer |
There is symmetry of names but not of items