ABSTRACT
Meanwhile the Muses of England were learning modes of expression hitherto scarcely attempted. Comic songs and satire on subjects of the day, before almost confined to the drama, became the separate pursuit of Corbet, Suckling, Cartwright, Donne, and Jonson. And, as in the days of Horace, in connection with satire, appear poetical epistles (the first specimen of which is stated to be one given by Hall in 1613) on a vast variety of subjects. Few of these forms of poetry produced much that is valuable except historically, yet it would be an unjust opinion which, from the nature of their themes, ranked them below the narratives and pastorals, in which so much ordinary verse under Elizabeth displayed itself. Their aim indeed is less distinctly poetical; but their result was to bring poetry into vital connection with real life in all its
A Litanie carries a small circle against the title and vertical lines against stanzas 3 and 5, and the last two lines of stanza 7. Alongside 'A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany' Palgrave has written 'fine and pathetic'. There is a cross against the title of ' A Hymne to God the Father'.
