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WEBBE, WILLIAM (fl. 1586)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 455 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WAT-WIL
WEBBE, WILLIAM (fl. 1586) , English literary critic, was educated at St John's College,
Cambridge
 , where he took his degree in 15721573. He was tutor to the two sons of Edward Sulyard of Flemyngs, Essex, and later to the children of
Henry
  Grey of Pirgo in the same county. A
letter
  from him is prefixed to the 1592 edition of Tancred and Gismunda,2 written by his friend, Robert Wilmot. In 1586 he published A Discourse of English Poetrie, dedicated to his patron, Edward Sulyard. Webbe argued that the dearth of good English poetry since Chaucer's day was not due to lack of poetic ability, or to the poverty of the language, but to the want of a proper system of prosody. He abuses " this tinkerly verse which we
call
  ryme," as of barbarous origin, and comments on the works of his con-temporaries, displaying enthusiasm for Spenser's Shepheardes Calendar, and admiration for Phaer's translation of Virgil. He urged the adoption of hexameters and sapphics for English verse, and gives some lamentable examples of his own composition.
The Discourse was reprinted in J. Haslewood's Ancient
Critical
  Essays (1811-1815), by E.
Arber
  in 1869, and in Gregory
Smith
 's Elizabethan
Critical
  Essays (1904).


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