WILLIAM BASSE AND HIS POEMS

I read with great pleasure MR. COLLIER'S interesting paper on "William Basse and his Poems," inserted in your 13th Number. Very little is known of this once popular poet, but it is very desirable that that little should be collected together, which cannot be better effected than through the friendly system of inter-communication established by your valuable journal. From my limited researches upon this subject, it appears that there were two poets of the name of William Basse. Anthony Wood (*Athen. Oxon*., edit. Bliss. iv. 222.) speaks of one William Basse, of Moreton, near Thame, in Oxfordshi…