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The poetical works of William Strode (1600-1645)

Now first collected from manuscript and printed sources, to which is added The Floating Island, a tragi-comedy,
now first reprinted from the original ed. of 1655,
ed. by Bertram Dobell, with a memoir of the author.

William Strode

London: The Editor, (1907), lvi, 270 pp.

Prepared by Michael Steer

William Strode (c.1602-1645) was a poet, Doctor of Divinity and Public Orator of Oxford University, one of the Worthies of Devon of John Prince (d.1723). He was born in Devon and baptised on 11 January 1602/3 (probably at the age of one) at Shaugh Prior, about 4 miles north of Newnham, the ancient seat of the Strode family. He was the only son of Philip Strode (d.1605) by his wife Wilmot Hoghton, daughter of William Hoghton (alias Houghton) of Hoghton Tower, Lancaster. Philip Strode was the 4th son of William III Strode (1512-1579), of Newnham, by his wife Elizabeth Courtenay, daughter and heiress of Philip Courtenay of Loughtor, a younger son of Sir Philip I Courtenay (d.1488) of Molland in North Devon. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He began writing English and Latin verse at an early age. His first published work was a Latin poem in the collection Annae Funebria Sacra (1619). He remained at Christ Church for the rest of his life, taking his B.A. in 1621 and his M.A. three years later. Although he was one of the most popular poets of his time, Strode's 'I saw faire Cloris walke alone' was probably the most popular poem of the century - his poetical works remained uncollected until Bertram Dobell published the present edition in 1907; this, being based on unreliable manuscripts, was inaccurate and incomplete and has been generally ignored by scholars This rare and much sought-after book was produced digitally by Google from a copy in the University of Minnesota Library collection and can be downloaded from HathiTrust. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

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