ALEXANDER

See also:

• ALEXANDER BROME (162o-1666)
• BROME, RICHARD (d. 1652)

BROME (162o-1666)  , English poet, was by profession an attorney, and was the author of many drinking songs and of satirical verses in favour of the Royalists and against the Rump . He published in 1661 Songs and other Poems, containing songs on various subjects, followed by a series of political songs; ballads, epistles, elegies and epitaphs; epigrams and translations . Izaak Walton wrote an introductory eclogue for this volume in praise of the writer, and his gaiety and wit won for him the title of the " English Anacreon " in Edward Phillips's Theatrum Poetarum . Brome published in 1666 a translation of Horace by himself and others, and was the author of a comedy entitled The Cunning Lovers (1654) . He also edited two volumes of Richard Brome's plays .