palladis

Updated: May 22, 2025

Meres' Palladis Tamia, 1598. Campion's Observations in the Arte of English Poesie, 1602. The historical bearing of Sidney's treatise has been too commonly overlooked. It forms, in truth, one move in the long struggle which ended only with the restoration of Charles II.; or, to speak more accurately, which has lasted, in a milder form, to the present day.

Charles Edwyn Vaughan - English literary criticism

Here we have to note that Francis Meres, a scholar of great repute, and M.A. of both Universities, wrote in 1598 a book, entitled 'Palladis Tamia, which in English he calls 'Wit's Treasury. It contains, so far as the sixteenth century is concerned, the most valuable statements as regards Shakspere: nay, the only trustworthy ones dating from that century.

Jacob Feis - Shakspere and Montaigne

In matters of faith and dogma his standpoint was distinctly negative. Miscellaneous author, was of a Lincolnshire family, studied at Camb. and Oxf., and became Rector of Wing in Rutland. He pub. in 1598 Palladis Tamia: Wit's Treasury, containing a comparison of English poets with Greek, Latin, and Italian.

John W. (John William) Cousin - A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature