George Puttenham, The Art of English Poesy (1589)
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Date
1589
Author
George Puttenham Note: 12/10/2005
Book title
The Arte of English Poesie. Contriued into three Bookes: The first of Poets and Poesie, the second of Proportion, the third of Ornament
Dedicated to
Publication place
London
Publisher
Richard Field
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- Greek
- hard words
- Latin
- poetry
- rhetoric
Summary
Regular logical definitions, as in sections on hard words imported from Latin and Greek (119-23), and on the names of auricular figures (135-218, mm1r-1v).
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
119-23, 135-218, mm1r-1v
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: logical
number: 251
sample: A Poet is as much to say as a maker. And our English name well conformes with the Greek word: for ποιέίν to make, they call a maker Poeta. (c1r)
number: 251
sample: A Poet is as much to say as a maker. And our English name well conformes with the Greek word: for ποιέίν to make, they call a maker Poeta. (c1r)
Alston
VI.34
Schafer
1589 P, 1589 Q
STC
20519
Facsimiles
Puttenham, George. The Arte of English Poesie. Eds. Gladys Doidge Willcock and Alice Walker. Cambridge: n.p., 1936. view record
Puttenham, Richard, and Lord (questioned as by) Lumley. The Arte of English poesie . The English experience, no. 342. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1971. view record
Puttenham, Richard, and George Puttenham. The Arte of English Poesie, 1598. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 110. Menston: Scolar Press, 1968. view record
Puttenham, Richard, and Lord (questioned as by) Lumley. The Arte of English poesie . The English experience, no. 342. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1971. view record
Puttenham, Richard, and George Puttenham. The Arte of English Poesie, 1598. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 110. Menston: Scolar Press, 1968. view record
Modern editions
Haslewood, Joseph, ed. Ancient Critical Essays upon English Poets and Poesy. 2 vols. Vol. 1: George Puttenham, Arte of English poesie; Vol. 2: George Gascoigne, Certayne notes of instruction; William Webbe, A discourse of English poetrie; King James, A treatise of the airt of Scottis poesie; Sir John Harington, An apologie of poetrie; Francis Meres, A comparative discourse of our English poets; Thomas Campion, Observations in the art of English poesie; Samuel Daniel, A defence of ryme; Edmund Bolton, Hypercritica, or, A Rule of judgment for writing or reading our histories; Edmund Spenser and Gabriel Harvey, five letters. London: Triphook, 1811-15. view record
Magnus, Laurie, ed. Documents Illustrating Elizabethan Poetry by Sir Philip Sidney, George Puttenham and William Webbe. London: G. Routledge, 1906. view record
Puttenham, George. The Arte of English Poesie. Ed. Edward Arber. Westminster: A. Constable, 1895. view record
Magnus, Laurie, ed. Documents Illustrating Elizabethan Poetry by Sir Philip Sidney, George Puttenham and William Webbe. London: G. Routledge, 1906. view record
Puttenham, George. The Arte of English Poesie. Ed. Edward Arber. Westminster: A. Constable, 1895. view record
Criticisms
Mirbach, Lucia. Form und Gehalt der substantivischen Reihungen in George Puttenhams, The arte of English poesie (1589). Linguistische Arbeiten 219. Tübingen: M. Niemeyer, 1989. view record
