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Creator: Richard Barnfield
Title: The encomion of Lady Pecunia: or The praise of money. By Richard Barnfeild, graduate in Oxford.
Date: London : Printed by G. S[haw] for Iohn Iaggard, and are to be solde at his shoppe neere Temple-barre, at the signe of the Hand and starre, 1598.
Repository: Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, USA
Call number and opening: STC 1485, title page & sig. E2v
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Heather Wolfe, "'Remembrance of some English poets': Early praise for Shakespeare the poet," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/190.
Folger Shakespeare Library, STC 1485. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/190.
In “A Remembrance of some English Poets,” the poet Richard Barnfield praises Edmund Spenser, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, and Shakespeare. According to Barnfield, Shakespeare’s honey-flowing veins produce poetry that pleases the world, and Venus and Adonis and Lucrece have placed his name “in fame’s immortal book.” The ode that follows, “As it fell upon a day,” appears as Shakespeare’s in The Passionate Pilgrim in 1599, but because of its early appearance here, it is now attributed to Barnfield.
Written by Heather Wolfe
Last updated February 23, 2020