Thistle:
Meredith Lee:
Regarding Horace’s address of Maecenas in the Fixte Satire, it is important to note that Maecenas, a well-known advisor and deputy to Octavian who became the first Emperor of Rome as Caesar Augustus, was a friend of Horace and a wealthy patron of his work. Horace rejects the “vices in the nobilite” and praises Maecenas for his dedication to “virtue and goodly qualities” within the Roman government and his loyalty to “Hertrurie,” or Etruria, Maecenas and Horace’s homeland.
Fennel:
Parker Anderson:
As the title hints, Edmund Waller wrote his poem to his friend, Sir William D’avenant upon D’avenant’s completion of his work, Gondibert. Samuel Taylor Coleridge anthologized a portion of the poem in his Encyclopaedia metropolitana.
Jennifer Van Roy:
- All three poems are classified as “figure” poems from The Arte of English Poesie by George Puttenham, 1589.
- The first two poems are known as Lozange or Rombus figures. These types of poems were often plated in gold with letters made of precious gems and were given as gifts to mistresses in the form of bracelets, chains, collars, or girdles.
- The third poem, by an unspecified author, is a tribute to Queen Elizabeth and is in the Pillar shape. “By this figure is signified stay, support, rest, state and magnificence…” (Puttenham)
Columbine:
Hannah Bluett:
A note on Phineas Fletcher: In the second edition of Fletcher’s The purple island, printed in 1633 in Cambridge, a letter in verse signed by a Francis Quarles ends the book. The poem begins with an address: “To my deare friend, the SPENCER of this age.”
Emerald Petersen:
Thordarson T 2919, Greville, Fulke, Certain Learned and elegant works…, London, 1633
- This specific sonnet has been reprinted in the 1900s-2000s in various collections of female poetry. However, the author, Fulke Greville, is a man.
Devon Waugh:
Note on Request to Cupide for revenge of his unkinde love
Sir Thomas Wyatt originally wrote the poem as a rondeau but the editor of Tottel’s Miscellany edited it into a sonnet-form.
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NOTES for Calhoun's Miscellany