John Bodenham

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person John Bodenham (c. 1559–1610), an English anthologist, was the patron of some of the Elizabethan poetry anthologies.

Life

Bodenham was the eldest of the five children of William Bodnam, a London grocer, and Katherine Wanton of York. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School.Template:Sfn

According to Arthur Henry Bullen in the Dictionary of National Biography, Bodenham did not himself edit any of the Elizabethan miscellanies attributed to him by bibliographers. He simply projected the publication of them and befriended their editors.Template:Sfn

Works

• Politeuphuia (Wits' Commonwealth) (1597)
• Wits' Theater (1598)
• Belvidere, or the Garden of the Muses (1600)
• England's Helicon (1600). This "prints for the first time [Christopher] Marlowe's 'The Passionate Shepherd to his Love', with [Sir Walter] Ralegh's reply."Template:Sfn

References

Attribution

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