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Home  »  Volume VII: English CAVALIER AND PURITAN  »  § 7. Nathaniel Whiting; Albino and Bellama

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21).
Volume VII. Cavalier and Puritan.

IV. Lesser Caroline Poets

§ 7. Nathaniel Whiting; Albino and Bellama

Besides these, we have further, of the same kind, the Albino and Bellama (1637) of Nathaniel Whiting, a poem of more than four thousand lines in sixains, with strong inclination to the heroicomic, and with something of the greater clearness of tale-telling which the comic element often brings with it, but with a more vulgar tone than Kynaston’s;