ABSTRACT
Henry Peacham the younger (1576?-1643 ?)was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. As a schoolmaster he seems to have been free to develop an unusually wide range of interests. Spenser's influence on him as a poet is considerable. The extracts below indicate an early interest in Spenserian iconographies, of which incidentally his Minerva Britanna (1612) is full. A study of Spenser's influence on seventeenth-century emblem books might well prove fruitful. See Dorothy F. Atkinson, 'A Note on Spenser and Painting', MLN, LVII (1943), pp. 57-8; and Rosemary Freeman, English Emblem Books (1948), p. 71.
