Lyly

• “Londoner by birth, an Oxford man by education, a friend of most of the earlier literary school of the reign, such as Lyly, Peele, and Spenser, and a tolerably industrious writer both in Latin and English during his short life, which can hardly have begun before 1557, and was certainly closed by 1593.”

  A History of Elizabethan Literature

• “Lyly" (and, we may add, his associates), writes his latest editor, "grasped the fact that in prose no less than in poetry, the reader demanded to be led onward by a succession of half imperceptible shocks of pleasure in the beauty and vigour of diction, or in the ingenuity of phrasing, in sentence after sentence -- pleasure inseparable from that caused by a perception of the nice adaptation of words to thought, pleasure quite other than that derivable from the acquisition of fresh knowledge [84].”

  John Lyly

• “Euphues and His England (based on the 1580 edition with author's changes; original spelling), by John Lyly (HTML at elizabethanauthors. com)”

  Out of the soylent planet

• “Lyly Gui: “…I was turning vegetarian because I can't properly digest red meat.””

  Vegetarians AGE faster | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.

• “And for this raising of ethical problems in an artistic setting of narrative, cf. Lyly.”

  Cyropaedia

• “As I recall, the author thought that once Lyly and other likely sources were available in searchable electronic form, we would we able to backdate a large percentage of supposed Shakespearean coinages.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » How Much Did Shakespeare Embiggen the English Vocabulary?

• “Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Hooker--even, in a way, Lyly--display what is almost a new culture: that culture which was to last through most of the seventeenth century and to enrich the very meanings of the words England and Aristocracy.”

  English Literature in the Sixteenth Century

• “And then Sir Launcelot with such knights as he had, and men of war to the number of ten thousand, put them in array, and met with them and fought with them manly, and slew and detrenched many of the Romans, and slew many knights and admirals of the party of the Romans and Saracens; there was slain the king of Lyly and three great lords, Aladuke, Herawd, and Heringdale.”

  Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table

• “Sackville has strutted into obscurity; and even Lyly, though his writings were once the delight of a court, and apparently perpetuated by a proverb, is now scarcely known even by name.”

  The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon

• “In England it may include Lyly, Milton, and even Gray and Collins.”

  BAROQUE IN LITERATURE

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