词条 | John Higgins (poet) |
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LifeHiggins was said by Thomas Hearne to have been a student of Christ Church, Oxford, but his name does not appear in the university register. He taught grammar between 1568 and 1570.[2] By 1574 he was vicar of Winsham in Somerset, where his successor was in post by 1620.[1] WorksHiggins's major work is The First Parte of the "Mirour for Magistrates" (1574).[1][3] This expansion of the The Mirrour for Magistrates (1559) by William Baldwin added the beginning of traditional British history in Geoffrey of Monmouth, where Baldwin's collection started English history from the reign of Richard II.[1] Sixteen legends, dealing with Albanact, Locrinus, Bladud, Ferrex, Porrex, Nennius, and others, are told in verse "complaints".[2] Higgins reissued his First Parte in 1575, enlarging his metrical address at the conclusion, and adding a new poem, Irenglass. In 1587 Thomas Newton prepared a collective edition of the original Mirrour and its supplementary volumes. For this edition Higgins prepared 23 further poems: the new series treats of Brennus, Cæsar, Nero, Caracalla, and others. In a later section appears another new poem by him, How the Valiant Knight, Sir Nicholas Burdet, Chiefe Butler of Normandy, was slayne at Pontoise, Anno 1441. Richard Niccols reissued all Higgins's contributions in another collective edition of the Mirrour, published in 1610, and reissued as The Falles of Vnfortvnate Princes in 1619. In 1815 Joseph Haslewood reprinted the whole work.[2] Other works were:[2]
Notes1. ^1 2 3 {{cite ODNB|id=13233|first=Philip|last=Schwyzer|title=Higgins, John}} 2. ^1 2 3 {{cite DNB|wstitle=Higgins, John|volume=26}} 3. ^The First Parte of the Mirour for Magistrates, containing the Falles of the first Infortunate Princes of this Lande. From the coming of Brute …, London (by Thomas Marshe), 1574, folio External links
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