Authority Cited: Randolph
Author name and dates: Thomas Randolph (1605-1635)
Creative Commons License, National Portrait Gallery
BKG Bio-tweet: Latin, English Poet; playwright; “son” of Ben Jonson; left Cambridge Fellowship; lost finger in tavern brawl, life to drink
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two Randolph cites were identified in vol. 2 of the 1775 Dict. One Randolph cite was identified as added in the 1773 Dict. indicated in bold italics below. The edition used by SJ is unknown but likely the 1640 edition or later for at least the 1773 Dict. as the poem addressed to Shirley does not appear in the 1638 first edition. There were reprints in 1643, 1652, 1662, 1668 (2). No 18th Century editions were identified. SJ may have quoted Randolph from memory, as two of the quotes are from the first lines of the poem, and the third is an inexact quote.]
Poems by Tho. Randolph, The 2nd Edition much Enlarged, 1640, Printed at Oxford for Francis Bowman
- Necessary Observations; worship [BKG Note: the Dict. quote is from the first lines of the poem]
- An Eclogue occasioned by two doctors disputing upon predestination; thorny [BKG note: the Dict. quote is inexact, including the substitution of "sweethead" for "poore head."]
- To Master J.S.[James Shirley] on his Grateful Servant; fulminate [BKG Note: Dict. quote is from the first lines of the poem. This poem does not appear in the 1638 first edition of Randolph's Poems.]
- Randolph (no work cited)