Henry Peacham, The Garden of Eloquence (1593)

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Date

1593

Author

Henry Peacham the elder Note: 12/10/2005

Book title

The Garden of Eloqvence Conteining the most Excellent Ornaments, Exornations, Lightes, flowers, and formes of speech, commonly called the figures of Rhetorike. By which the singular partes of mans mind, are most aptly expressed, and the sundrie affections of his heart most effectuallie vttered. Manifested, and furnished vvith varietie of fit examples, gathered out of the most eloquent orators, and best approued authors, and chieflie out of the holie Scriptures. Profitable and necessarie, as wel for priuate speech, as for publicke Orations. Corrected and augmented by the first author. H. P.

Edition

second

Publication place

London

Printer

Richard Field

Publisher

Hugh Jackson

Text type

printed book

Genre

Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions

Subject area

rhetoric

Summary

Article-length entries of figures and tropes, with logical definitions

Language

headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English

Word-group

type: undifferentiated

Word-entry

type: logical
sample: A Figure is a forme of words, oration, or sentence, made new by art, differing from the vulgar maner and custome of writing or speaking. (c1r)

Schafer

1593 P

STC

19498

Facsimiles

Peacham, Henry. The Garden of Eloquence (1593). Ed. W. G. Crane. Gainesville, FL: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1954. view record

Criticisms

Koll, Beate-Maria. Henry Peacham's `The Garden of Eloquence' (1593). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1996. view record