ABSTRACT
Edward Bysshe (flor. 1702) is famous only as the author of The Art of English Poetry, which reached its fifth edition in 1714 and reprinted till mid-century. His ignorance of the use of Spenserian stanza is quite remarkable: the admirer of Dryden should not have overlooked Prior. The British Parnassus (1714) relies for its examples mainly on poets after Dryden, and seems to contain none from Spenser.
