ABSTRACT
We know little more of Whiting than that he was a Queens' College, Cambridge, man who became a Puritan minister and flourished 1629-63. His II Inson;o Insonnadado, 1637, one of two long narratives he wrote in verse, is a vindication of poetry by way of a dream-fiction. The poet is taken before Jove, and an actor speaks a panegyric of poetry and poets which includes a praise of Donne (lines 429-32).
