The literary scholar Alexander Balloch Grosart (1827 99) reprinted this allegorical poem by Robert Chester (fl.c.1586 1604) with an introduction and notes in 1878. Grosart incorrectly identified the poem's author as a certain Sir Robert Chester of Royston. Later research suggests Chester served as a chaplain or secretary in the household of the work's dedicatee, Sir John Salusbury. Originally printed in 1601, the grandiloquent, meandering poem is chiefly remembered for the works appended to it. These include original poems by Chester's contemporaries, Shakespeare, Jonson, Chapman and Marston,...
The literary scholar Alexander Balloch Grosart (1827 99) reprinted this allegorical poem by Robert Chester (fl.c.1586 1604) with an introduction and n...
