ABSTRACT
John Bodenham (flor. 1600) was, as it were, a great planner of projects and organized the production among other things of Wits Commonwealth and Englands Helicon. Bel-vedere or The Garden of the Muses has much in common as regards its broad intentions and, in particular, as regards its extensive use of Spenser ian material, with Englands Parnassus compiled by Bodenham's friend Robert Allott. For details see Charles Crawford, 'Belvedere, or The Garden of the Muses', Englische Studien, XLIII (19II), 207.
