Poetical Works

The standard edition of the poetical works of Giles Fletcher and his brother Phineas Fletcher.

Giles Fletcher (Author), Phineas Fletcher (Author)

9780521110402, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 7 May 2009

400 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.59 kg

Originally published in two volumes in 1908 and 1909, the present work remains the standard edition of the poetical works of Giles Fletcher and his brother Phineas Fletcher. The first volume contains all the extant poems of Giles Fletcher and the undisputed poetical works of Phineas published before 1633. The second volume includes the poems, original or translated, of Phineas Fletcher which appeared in or after that year.

Part I. Phineas Fletcher: 1. The purple island or the Isle of Man
2. Piscatorie eclogs
3. Poeticall miscellanies
4. Elisa, or an elegie upon the unripe decease of Sir Antoine Irby
5. Verses by Francis Quarles
6. Sylvia Poetica
7. Verses and translations in A Father's Testament
Appendix to the poems of Phineas Fletcher
Notes
Plates.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]