William Webbe

William Webbe

William Webbe (born 1550) was an English critic and translator. Almost nothing isknown of him except that he was at Cambridge and acted as tutor in certaindistinguished families, and was a friend of Spenser. He wrote a"Discourse of English Poetrie" (1586), in which he discusses metre, rhyme(the use of which he reprehends), and reviews English poetry up to hisown day. He also translated the first two of the "Eclogues" of Virgil insingularly unmelodious hexameters.


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