Prolific Puritan poet and satirist who became a byword for bad poetry; during the eighteenth century his more attractive youthful verse began to be reprinted and admired.

REFERENCES TO WORKS BY George Wither:

Abuses Stript, and Whipt. Or, Satirical Essayes.

“The Author's Mediation upon Sight of his Picture” in A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne.

A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne: quickened with Metricall Illustrations, both Morall and Divine, and disposed into Lotteries, that Instruction and Good Counsell may bee furthered by an Honest and Pleasant Recreation.

Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'arete. Written by Him-Selfe.

Juvenilia: a Collection of Poems.

The Shepherds Hunting: being, certaine Eglogs written during the Time of the Authors Imprisonment in the Marshalsey.

“A Supersedeas to all them, whose custome it is, without any deserving, to importune Authors to give unto them their Bookes” in A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne.