
Fletcher Authority Cited: Fletch, P. [Phineas Fletcher]
Author name and dates: Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650)
BKG Bio-tweet: Allegorical poet; cleric; cousin of John F.; with brother Giles influenced Milton, Crashaw; pastoral Eclogues quoted by SJ
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: SJ cites P. Fletch [Phineas Fletcher] only once in the Dict. Item 361 in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, ed. Fleeman, is "7. Fletcher's Works, &c." According to Green in An Annotated Guide to Samuel Johnson's Library, this may be a reference to the Purple Island, or to Giles Fletcher or to Andrew Fletcher.]
Author name and dates: Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650)
BKG Bio-tweet: Allegorical poet; cleric; cousin of John F.; with brother Giles influenced Milton, Crashaw; pastoral Eclogues quoted by SJ
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: SJ cites P. Fletch [Phineas Fletcher] only once in the Dict. Item 361 in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, ed. Fleeman, is "7. Fletcher's Works, &c." According to Green in An Annotated Guide to Samuel Johnson's Library, this may be a reference to the Purple Island, or to Giles Fletcher or to Andrew Fletcher.]
- The Purple Island, with Piscatory Eclogues and other Poetical Miscellanies, by P. F. 1633, Cambridge: Printed by the Printers to the Universitie of Cambridge; Piscatory Eclogue IIII, 12; foreslow [BKG Note: see the text image below.]
- Fletcher, P. (no work cited)