William Webbe
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'''William Webbe''' (born [[1550]]) was an English critic and translator. Almost nothing is
known of him except that he was at Cambridge and acted as tutor in certain
distinguished families, and was a friend of Spenser. He wrote a
''[[Discourse of English Poetrie]]'' (1586), in which he discusses metre, rhyme
(the use of which he reprehends), and reviews English poetry up to his
own day. He also translated the first two of the ''[[Eclogues]]'' of Virgil in
singularly unmelodious hexameters.
[[Category:English translators|Webbe, William]]
[[Category:1550 births|Webbe, William]]
[[Category:Year of death missing|Webbe, William]]
{{A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature}}