ABSTRACT
Poole’s handbook for aspiring poets, ‘The English Parnassus’, is a collection of extracts from the poetry and prose of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Herbert, represented by a number of rather mangled phrases and lines, is also mentioned in the following counsel to poets in the book’s Proeme. See also above, p. 7.
Source: Poole, ‘The English Parnassus: or, A Helpe to English Poesie’ (1657), sigs A7v–A8.
