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WILLIAM BASSE, AND HIS POEMS
By J. PAYNE COLLIER. (Kensington)
Can any of your readers inform me where a perfect or imperfect copy is to be found of a poem, of which I possess only a single half sheet, under the following title:— "*Great Brittaines Sunnes-set, bewailed with a Shower of Teares*. By William Basse. At Oxford, Printed by Ioseph Barnes. 1613"? It is one of the many poems published on the death of Prince Henry; and although I have been in search of it, or of a fragment of it, for more than twenty years, I have never been able to obtain tidings of more than of that small portion in my possession; nor am I aware of the mention of it in any biblio…
Topics: Poetry, Bibliography, Literary History