Gondibert

It is one our most beautiful songs, and he is remembered by it far more than by his long epic poem called Gondibert which few people now read.

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He spent all of 1651 in the Tower of London, where he was imprisoned at the time "Gondibert" was written.

AS SEEN ON TV: SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT Toby O'B 2009

He spent all of 1651 in the Tower of London, where he was imprisoned at the time "Gondibert" was written.

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His poetical work consists of the epic of "Gondibert" with other shorter poems (Chalmer, English Poets, London, 1810, vi), together with nearly thirty plays (Edinburgh, 1872-4, 5 vols., edited by Maidment and Logan).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

"Gondibert" is an unfinished poem in fifteen hundred heroic stanzas.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

Well, inspiration, as Sir William Davenant observed and rather wittily proved, in his Preface to "Gondibert,"'is a dangerous term.'

On The Art of Reading Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Sir William Davenant, because of his loyalty, was for some time confined a prisoner in Cowes Castle, where he wrote the greater part of his poem of 'Gondibert': and it is said that his life was saved principally through the generous intercession of Milton.

Character Samuel Smiles 1858

"Gondibert," and almost every one speaks of it, as commonly of the dead, with a certain subdued respect.

Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855

"Gondibert," it is vastly superior in life, in picturesqueness, in the energy of single lines, and, above all, in imagination.

Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855

But as for "Gondibert," I would except that passage in the preface about wit being the soul's powder — "but most of mankind are strangers to wit, as Indians are to powder."

Walden~ Chapter 14 (historical) 1854