pharonnida

Updated: May 10, 2025

In fact the verse and prose romances of the time are very closely connected: and Chamberlayne's Pharonnida far the finest production of the English "heroic" school in prose, verse, or drama was, when the fancy for abridging set in, condensed into a tiny prose Eromena. But Ornatus and Artesia, if more modern, more decent, and less extravagant than Parismus, is nothing like so interesting to read.

George Saintsbury - The English Novel

Oliphant , and many others. Poet, practised medicine at Shaftesbury. On the outbreak of the Civil War he joined the Royalists and fought at the second battle of Newbury. He wrote a play, Loves Victory , and an epic Pharonnida . With occasional beauties he is, in the main, heavy and stiff, and is almost forgotten. He influenced Keats. Historical and scientific writer, was b. at Peebles.

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