AN ELIZABETHAN POET

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 234, 1 July 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)

AN ELIZABETHAN POET

“Poems and Dramas of Fulke (Irevilla, First Lord Brooke,” edited by Geoffrey Bullough, two volumes (London\Oliver and Boyd), Professor Bullough deserves the gratitude of all interested in Elizabethan literature for his thorough and scholarly editing of the poetry Of Fulke Grevllle, friend of Sidney, Essex, Cecil. Bacon, Buckingham and Rochester, and favourite of the Queen. Grevllle was a line poet and dramatist, notable particularly for his realistic love-poetry, but up to the present, little has been done to make his work easy to read, and he has gained a reputation for obscurity and difllculty which the clarity

of Professor Bullough’s edition shows to be undeserved.

This edition is limited to the material contained in the 1033 collection entitled “Oertaine Learned and Elegant Workes.” It contains the sonuet series “Caelica,” “A Treatie of Humane Learning,” “Au Inquisition Upon Fame and Honour” and “A Treatie .of Warres,” these constituting the first volume. In the second volume artf the two poetic* dramas “Mustapha” and “Alaham.” Professor Bullough supplies lengthy introductions and commentaries to both volumes and has carried out an extremely complex task i witih great distinction.