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FRANCIS MERES (1565-1647)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 163 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCIS See also:MERES (1565-1647)  , See also:English divine and author, was See also:born at Kirton in the See also:Holland See also:division of See also:Lincolnshire in 1565 . He was educated at See also:Pembroke See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1587, and M.A. in 1591 . Two years later he was incorporated M.A. of See also:Oxford . His kinsman, See also:John See also:Meres, was high See also:sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1596, and apparently helped him in the See also:early See also:part of his career . In 16o2 he became See also:rector of Wing in See also:Rutland, where he had a school . He died on the 29th of See also:January 1647 . Meres rendered immense service to the See also:history of Elizabethan literature by the publication of his Palladis Tamia, Wits See also:Treasury (1598) . It was one of a See also:series of volumes of See also:short pithy sayings, the first of which was Politeuphuia: Wits See also:Commonwealth (1597), compiled by John Bodenham or by See also:Nicholas See also:Ling, the publisher . The Palladis Tamia contained moral and See also:critical reflections borrowed from various See also:sources, and embraced sections on books, on See also:philosophy, on See also:music and See also:painting, and a famous " See also:Comparative Discourse of our English poets with the Greeke, Latin, and See also:Italian poets." This See also:chapter enumerates the English poets from See also:Chaucer to Meres's own See also:day, and in each See also:case a comparison with some classical author is instituted . The See also:book was issued in 1634 as a school book, and has been partially reprinted in the See also:Ancient Critical Essays (1811-1815) of See also:Joseph Haslewood, See also:Professor E . See also:Arber's English Garner, and See also:Gregory See also:Smith's Elizabethan Critical Essays (1904) . A See also:sermon entitled Gods Arithmeticke (1597), and two See also:translations from the See also:Spanish of Luis de See also:Granada entitled Granados Devotion and the Sinners See also:Guide (1598) See also:complete the See also:list of his See also:works .

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