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WEBBE, WILLIAM (fl. 1586)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 455 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WEBBE, See also:WILLIAM (fl. 1586) , See also:English See also:literary critic, was educated at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he took his degree in 1572–1573. He was See also:tutor to the two sons of See also:Edward Sulyard of Flemyngs, See also:Essex, and later to the See also:children of See also:Henry See also:Grey of Pirgo in the same See also:county. A See also:letter from him is prefixed to the 1592 edition of See also:Tancred and Gismunda,2 written by his friend, See also:Robert See also:Wilmot. In 1586 he published A Discourse of English Poetrie, dedicated to his See also:patron, Edward Sulyard. Webbe argued that the dearth of See also:good English See also:poetry since See also:Chaucer's See also:day was not due to lack of poetic ability, or to the poverty of the See also:language, but to the want of a proper See also:system of See also:prosody. He abuses " this tinkerly See also:verse which we See also:call ryme," as of barbarous origin, and comments on the See also:works of his See also:con-temporaries, displaying See also:enthusiasm for See also:Spenser's Shepheardes See also:Calendar, and admiration for See also:Phaer's See also:translation of See also:Virgil. He urged the See also:adoption of hexameters and sapphics for English verse, and gives some lamentable examples of his own See also:composition. The Discourse was reprinted in J. Haslewood's See also:Ancient See also:Critical Essays (1811-1815), by E. See also:Arber in 1869, and in See also:Gregory See also:Smith's Elizabethan Critical Essays (1904).

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