Henry Reynolds (poet)

Henry Reynolds (1564-1632) was a Suffolk man, schoolmaster, English poet and literary critic of the seventeenth century.

He is known for two works, "Aminta Englisht" of 1628, a translation from Tasso, and "Mythomystes", a 1632 critical work on poetry considered to be most influenced by the neo-Platonism of the early Italian Renaissance. He was the dedicatee of a 1627 poem by Michael Drayton. Otherwise there is sparse biographical information.

Works

*"Aminta, Englisht. The Henry Reynolds translation" (1972). Edited by Clifford Davidson, appendix by Robert Dean. ISBN: 0874230071
*"Mythomystes" (1972) Scolar Press reprint ISBN-10: 0854178562, ISBN-13: 978-0854178568

References

* J. N. Douglas Bush, "Two Poems by Henry Reynolds", Modern Language Notes, Vol. 41, No. 8 (Dec., 1926), pp. 510-513
*A. M. Cinquemani, "Henry Reynolds' "Mythomystes" and the Continuity of Ancient Modes of Allegoresis in Seventeenth-Century England", PMLA, Vol. 85, No. 5 (Oct., 1970), pp. 1041-1049
*Mary Hobbs, "Drayton's 'Most Dearely-Loved Friend Henery Reynolds Esq."The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 24, No. 96 (Nov., 1973), pp. 414-428
*H. R. Woodhuysen (ed.), "The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse" (Penguin Books, 1993).

External links

* [http://www.bartleby.com/217/1105.html]