Euphues

[Sidenote: Euphues] _Euphues_, and its companion volume _Euphues and His England_ enjoyed a very remarkable if temporary vogue; running through numerous editions in the course of the ensuing fifty years.

England under the Tudors

_Anatomy of Wit_ is taken up with what may be described as the private papers of Euphues, consisting of letters, essays, and dialogues, including _A Cooling Carde for all Fond Lovers_, a treatise on education, and a refutation of atheism, and so amid the thunders of the artillery of platitude the first part of _Euphues_ closes.

John Lyly John Dover Wilson 1925

This tone of romantic gallantry found a clever but conceited author, to reduce it to a species of constitution and form, and lay down the courtly manner of conversation, in a pedantic book, called Euphues and his England.

The Monastery Walter Scott 1801

a clever but conceited author, to reduce it to a species of constitution and form, and lay down the courtly manner of conversation, in a pedantic book, called Euphues and his England.

The Monastery 2008

The popularity of "Euphues" excited much imitation, and its influence is strongly marked in the works of Robert Greene.

A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

He is now best known, where known at all, by his prose work "Euphues," which was so much admired at Elizabeth's court, that all the ladies knew his phrases by heart, and to "parley Euphuism" was a sign of breeding.

A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

In literature the imitations of 'Euphues' which flourished for a while gave way to a series of romances inaugurated by the 'Arcadia' of Sir Philip

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

The first Elizabethan dramatist of permanent individual importance is the comedian John Lyly, of whose early success at Court with the artificial romance 'Euphues' we have already spoken.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

It was, however, the manner rather than the matter which gave to "Euphues" its prominence and popularity.

A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

Lyly in his two volumes of "Euphues" was the first, perhaps, to treat prose as equally worthy with poetry of artistic elaboration, and his book, a medley of story-telling and moralizing, often most excellent as well as interesting in its ethical musing, instituted a fashion of speech and writing from which for some years few writers stood aloof.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913