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BARNES, BARNABE (1569 ?–16o9)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 412 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARNES, BARNABE (1569 ?–16o9) , See also:English poet, See also:fourth son of Dr See also:Richard Barnes, See also:bishop of See also:Durham, was See also:born in See also:Yorkshire, perhaps at Stonegrave, a living of his See also:father's, in 1368 or 1569. In 1386 he was entered at Brasenose See also:College, See also:Oxford, where Giovanni See also:Florio was his servitor, and in 1591 went to See also:France with the See also:earl of See also:Essex, who was then serving against the See also:prince of See also:Parma. On his return he published Parthenophil and Parthenophe, Sonnettes, Madrigals, Elegies and Odes (ent. on Stationers' See also:Register 1593), dedicated to his " dearest friend," See also:William See also:Percy, who contributed a See also:sonnet to the eulogies prefixed to a later See also:work, Offices. Parthenophil was possibly printed for private circulation, and the copy in the See also:duke of See also:Devonshire's library is believed to be unique. Barnes was well acquainted with the work of contemporary See also:French sonneteers, to whom he is largely indebted, and he borrows his See also:title, apparently, from a Neapolitan writer of Latin See also:verse, Hieronymus Angerianus. It is possible to outline a See also:story from this See also:series of love lyrics, but the incidents are slight, and in this See also:case, as in other Elizabethan sonnet-cycles, it is difficult to dogmatize as to what is the expression of a real See also:personal experience, and what is intellectual exercise in See also:imitation of See also:Petrarch. Parthenophil abounds in passages of See also:great freshness and beauty, although its elaborate conceits are sometimes over-ingenious and strained. Barnes took the See also:part of See also:Gabriel See also:Harvey and even experimented in classical metres. This partisanship is sufficient to See also:account for the abuse of See also:Thomas See also:Nashe, who accused him, apparently on no See also:proof at all, of stealing a nobleman's See also:chain at See also:Windsor, and of other things. Barnes's second work, A Divine Centurie of Spirituall Sonnetts, appeared in 1595. He also wrote two plays:— The Divil's See also:Charter (1607), a tragedy dealing with the See also:life of See also:Pope See also:Alexander VI., which was played before the See also:king; and The See also:Battle of See also:Evesham (or See also:Hexham), of which the MS., traced to the beginning of the 18th See also:century, is lost. In i6o6 he dedicated to King See also:James Offices enabling privat Persons for the speciall service of all See also:good Princes and Policies, a See also:prose See also:treatise containing, among other things, descriptions of See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth and of the earl of Essex.

Barnes was buried at Durham in See also:

December 16og. His Parthenophil and Spiritual) Sonnetts were edited by Dr A. B. See also:Grosart in a limited issue in 1875; Parthenophil was included by Prof. E. See also:Arber in vol. v. of An English Garner; see also the new edition of An English Garner (Elizabethan Sonnets, ed. S. See also:Lee, 1904, pp. Ixxv: et seq.). See also:Professor E. See also:Dowden contributed a sympathetic See also:criticism of Barnes to The See also:Academy of See also:Sept. 2, 1876.

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