ABSTRACT
Samuel Sheppard (flor. c. 1646) began his literary career early in the century as amanuensis to Ben Jonson. It is to Ben Jonson, in however inferior a fashion, that he owes most as a poet, and not to Spenser with whom he persistently aligns himself. On The Fairie King, see R. B. Brinckley, Arthurian Legend in the Seventeenth Century, Johns Hopkin's Monographs in Literary History, III (1932), 111-13.
