William Webbe 1318189 57856126 2006-06-10T10:54:55Z Chicheley 1181045 '''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}}