Shapiro-Tagebuch (28) Meres "Comparative Discourse"

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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:

 

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:

 

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