ABSTRACT
Ralph Knevett (1600-61) was Rector of Lyng in Norfolk. His shorter poems are very much in the manner of Herbert, but his longest and most ambitious piece, the Supplement, is pastiche of Spenser. Knevett suppressed the work for political reasons (see Sheppard) and it has never been published, though edited in 1955 by Andrew Lavender (New York University Ph.D. Dissertation). The Supplement remains in any case incomplete. Knevett finished the first three Books of his continuation in 1635 but, as far as is known, did not write the other three planned 'to make this Zodiacke perfect' (p. xv).
