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Francis Meres (
1565 –
January 29,
1647), was an
English churchman and
author.
He was born at
Kirton in the Holland division of
Lincolnshire in 1565. He was educated at
Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he received a B.A. in 1587 and an M.A. in 1591. Two years later he was incorporated an M.A. of
Oxford. His relative, John Meres, was high sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1596, and apparently helped him in the early part of his career. In 1602 he became rector of
Wing in
Rutland, where he also ran a school.
Meres rendered immense service to the history of Elizabethan literature by the publication of his
Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury (1598), a commonplace book that's important as a source on the Elizabethan poets and more particularly because its list of Shakespeare's plays is a critical source for in establishing the
chronology of Shakespeare plays. It was one of a series of such volumes of short pithy sayings, the first of which was
Politeuphuia: Wits Commonwealth (1597), compiled by
John Bodenham or by
Nicholas Ling, the publisher. Meres'
Palladis Tamia contained moral and critical reflections borrowed from various sources, and included sections on books, on philosophy, on music and painting, and a famous "Comparative Discourse of our English poets with the Greeke, Latin, and Italian poets." This chapter enumerates the English poets from
Geoffrey Chaucer to Meres' own day, and compares each with some classical author.
The book was reissued in 1634 as a school book, and was partially reprinted in the
Ancient Critical Essays (1811-1811) of
Joseph Haslewood,
Edward Arber's
English Garner, and
Gregory Smith's
Elizabethan Critical Essays (1904). A sermon entitled
Gods Arithmeticke (1597), and two translations from the Spanish of
Luís de Granada entitled
Granada's Devotion and the Sinners' Guide (1598) complete Meres' list of works.
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