PHINEAS See also:

• FLETCHER, ALICE CUNNINGHAM (1845– )
• FLETCHER, ANDREW
• FLETCHER, GILES (c. 1548-1611)
• FLETCHER, GILES (c. 1584-1623)
• FLETCHER, JOHN WILLIAM (1729-1785)
• PHINEAS FLETCHER (1582-1650)

FLETCHER (1582-1650)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English poet, See also:

• ELDER (0. Eng. ellarn; Ger. Holunder; Fr. sureau)
• ELDER (Gr. 1rpev(3iTepos)

elder son of Dr See also:

• GILES (GIL, GILLES), ST

Giles See also:

• FLETCHER, ALICE CUNNINGHAM (1845– )
• FLETCHER, ANDREW
• FLETCHER, GILES (c. 1548-1611)
• FLETCHER, GILES (c. 1584-1623)
• FLETCHER, JOHN WILLIAM (1729-1785)
• FLETCHER, PHINEAS (1582-1650)

Fletcher, and See also:

• BROTHER

brother of Giles the younger, noticed above, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• CRANBROOK
• CRANBROOK, GATHORNE

Cranbrook, See also:

• KENT
• KENT, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• KENT, JAMES (1763-1847)
• KENT, WILLIAM (1685-1748)

Kent, and was baptized on the 8th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1582 . He was admitted a See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar of See also:

• ETON

Eton, and in 'Coo entered See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King's See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge . He graduated B.A. in 1604, and M.A. in 1608, and was one of the contributors to Sorrow's Joy (1603) . His See also:

• PASTORAL (from Lat. pastor, a shepherd)

pastoral See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama, Sicelides or Piscatory (pr . 1631) was written (1614) for performance before See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

James I., but only produced after the king's departure at King's College . He had been ordained See also:

• PRIEST (Ger. Priester, Fr. pretre)

priest and before 1611 became a See also:

• FELLOW

fellow of his college, but he See also:

• LEFT

left Cambridge before 1616, apparently because certain emoluments were refused him . He became See also:

• CHAPLAIN

chaplain to See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry See also:

• WILLOUGHBY

Willoughby, who presented him in 1621 to the rectory of Hilgay, See also:

• NORFOLK
• NORFOLK, EARLS AND DUKES OF

Norfolk, where he married and spent the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of his See also:

• LIFE

life . In 1627 he published Locustae, vel See also:

• PIETAS

Pietas Jesuitica . The Locusts or Apollyonists, two parallel poems in Latin and English furiously attacking the See also:

• JESUITS

Jesuits . Dr See also:

• GROSART, ALEXANDER BALLOCH (1827-1899)

Grosart saw in this See also:

• WORK

work one of the See also:

• SOURCES

sources of See also:

• MILTON
• MILTON, JOHN (1608–1674)

Milton's conception of Satan . Next See also:

• YEAR

year appeared an erotic poem, Brittains See also:

• IDA (d. 559)

Ida, with See also:

• EDMUND
• EDMUND, or EADMUND (c. 980-1016)
• EDMUND, SAINT [EDMUND RICE] (d. 1240)

Edmund See also:

• SPENSER, EDMUND (c. 1552-1599)
• SPENSER, JOHN (1559-1614)

Spenser's name on the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title-See also:

• PAGE
• PAGE, THOMAS NELSON (1853- )
• PAGE, WILLIAM (1811-1885)

page . It is certainly not by Spenser, and is printed by Dr Grosart with the See also:

• WORKS

works of Phineas Fletcher .

Sicelides, a See also:

• PLAY

play acted at King's College in 1614, was printed in 1631 . In 1632 appeared two theological See also:

• PROSE

prose See also:

• TREATISES

treatises, The Way to Blessedness and Joy in Tribulation, and in 1633 his magnum See also:

• OPUS ('O7rois)

opus, The See also:

• PURPLE

Purple See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

Island . The See also:

• BOOK

book was dedicated to his friend See also:

• EDWARD

Edward See also:

• BENLOWES, EDWARD (1603 ?-1676)

Benlowes, and included his Piscatorie Eclags and other Poetical Miscellanies . He died in 1650, his will being proved by his widow on the 13th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December of that year . The Purple Island, or the Isle of See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

Man, is a poem in twelve cantos describing in cumbrous See also:

• ALLEGORY (iXXos, other, and ayopeuav, to speak)

allegory the physiological structure of the human See also:

• BODY

body and the mind of man . The intellectual qualities are personified, while the See also:

• VEINS

veins are See also:

• RIVERS
• RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c. 1442—1483)
• RIVERS, EARL
• RIVERS, RICHARD SAVAGE, 4TH EARL (c. 1660—1712)

rivers, the bones the mountains of the island, the whole See also:

• ANALOGY (Gr. avaXo-yLa, proportion)

analogy being worked out with See also:

• GREAT

great ingenuity . The manner of Spenser is preserved throughout, but Fletcher never lost sight of his moral aim to lose himself in digressions like those of the Faerie Queene . What he gains in unity of See also:

• DESIGN (Fr. desiin, drawing; Lat. designare, to mark out)

design, however, he more than loses in human See also:

• INTEREST

interest and See also:

• ACTION

action . The See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• CHARM (through the Fr. from the Lat. carmen, a song)

charm of the poem lies in its descriptions of rural scenery . The Piscatory Eclogues are pastorals the characters of which are represented as See also:

• FISHER
• FISHER, ALVAN (1792–1863)
• FISHER, GEORGE PARK (1827-1909)
• FISHER, JOHN (c. 1469-1535)
• FISHER, JOHN ARBUTHNOT FISHER, 1ST BARON

fisher boys on the See also:

• BANKS, GEORGE LINNAEUS (1821-1881)
• BANKS, NATHANIEL PRENTISS (1816–1894)
• BANKS, SIR JOSEPH
• BANKS, THOMAS (1735-1805)

banks of the See also:

• CAM (CAO), DIOGO (fl. 1480-1486)

Cam, and are interesting for the See also:

• LIGHT

light they See also:

• CAST (from the verb meaning " to throw "; the word is Scand. in origin, cf. Dan. kaste, and Swed. kasta; " cast " in Middle Eng. took the place of the A.S. weor pan, cf. Ger. werf en)

cast .on the See also:

• BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

biography of the poet himself (Thyrsil) and his See also:

• FATHER

father (Thelgon) . The See also:

• POETRY

poetry of Phineas Fletcher has not the sublimity sometimes reached by his brother Giles . The mannerisms are more pronounced and the conceits more far-fetched, but the See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse is fluent, and lacks neither See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour nor See also:

• MUSIC

music .

A See also:

• COMPLETE

complete edition of his works (4 vols.) was privately printed by Dr A . B . Grosart (See also:

• FULLER, ANDREW (1954-1815)
• FULLER, GEORGE (1822—1884)
• FULLER, M
• FULLER, MARGARET, MARCHIONESS
• FULLER, MELVILLE WESTON (1833-1910)
• FULLER, THOMAS (16o8-1661)
• FULLER, WILLIAM (1670--c. 1717)

Fuller Worthies Library, 1869) .