ABSTRACT
Joseph Beaumont (1616-99) rounded off a brilliant career at Cambridge as Master of Peterhouse and Professor of Divinity. The whole conception of his chief poetic enterprise, Psyche, is pervasively influenced by the Faerie Oueene. The distaste he records for that poem in the lines below mark more the anxiety of the practising poet not to be overwhelmed by his model, than any genuine neo-classical spirit. See also No. 122.
