John Bodenham
{{Short description|English anthologist}}
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{{Infobox person |name = John Bodenham |birth_date = c. 1559 |death_date = c. 1610 (aged c. 50) |years_active = c. 1600 |occupation = anthologist }}
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.{{sfn |Marotti |2004}}
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.{{sfn |Bullen |1886}}
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."{{sfn |Marotti |2004}}
References
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- {{Cite DNB |first=Arthur Henry |last=Bullen |wstitle=Bodenham, John |volume=05 |pages=291–292}}
- {{Cite ODNB |first=Arthur F. |last=Marotti |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2754 |chapter=Bodenham , John (c.1559–1610) |title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/2754 }}
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Category:16th-century English writers
Category:16th-century English male writers
Category:17th-century English writers
Category:17th-century English male writers
Category:People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
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