ABSTRACT
Suckling in his 'A Session of the Poets', 1637, represented Jonson, Carew, Davenant and others as contending for Apollo's laurel crown. A satiric poem with the same title giving a post-Restoration version of the contest appeared in Poems on Several Occasions: by the Right Honourable The E. oj R., Antwerp, 1680. It shows Apollo's attempts to 'Establish a Government, Leader, and Laws' amid a chaos of literary factions and pretenders. 'j--D--' is the first of the poets who answers Apollo's general summons.
