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He was born around 1499 at Salisbury, Wiltshire.
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A Discourse of English Poetrie, 1586
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William Webbe
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Little is known about him except that he attended Trinity College, Cambridge.
Career
He was tutor to the two sons of Edward Sulyard of Flemyngs, Essex, and later to the children of Henry Grey of Pirgo in the same county.
In 1586 he published A Discourse of English Poelrie, dedicated to his patron, Edward Sulyard. Webbe argued that the dearth of good English poetry since Chaucer's day was not due to lack of poetic ability, or to the poverty of the language, but to the want of a proper system of prosody.
He abuses "this tinkerly verse which we call ryme, " as of barbarous origin, and comments on the works of his contemporaries, displaying enthusiasm for Spenser's Shepheardes Calendar, and admiration for Phaer's translation of Virgil. He urged the adoption of hexameters and sapphics for English verse, and gives some lamentable examples of his own composition.
The Discourse was reprinted in J. Haslcwood's Ancient Critical Essays (1811 - 1815), by E. Arber in 1869, and in Gregory Smith's Elizabethan Critical Essays (1904).
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He wrote a Discourse of English Poetrie (1586), in which he discusses prosody and reviews English poetry up to his own day. He also translated Virgil's first two Eclogues. A letter by Webbe to Robert Wilmot (fl. 1568–1608) is prepended to the 1591 edition of Wilmot's play Tragedie of Tancred and Gismund.
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A Discourse of English Poetrie. 1586, Issue 26; issue 1870
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Chelched; Or, Chelsea, Ancient, Mediaeval, And Modern : A Poem
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A discourse of English poetrie. 1586
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A Disourse of English Poetrie (1586).
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The Poet's Death: And Other Poems (1865)
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Chelched: Or Chelsea, Ancient, Mediaeval And Modern: A Poem (1879)
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The Poet's Death and Other Poems
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- A Discourse of English Poetrie, 1586
- A Discourse of English Poetrie, 1586: William Webbe ; Carefully Edited by Edward Arber 1871
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A Discourse of English Poetrie. 1586, Issue 26; issue 1870
