Author:Francis Quarles

Francis Quarles
(1592–1644)

Francis Quarles

Works

• Emblems
• "A Divine Rapture"
• "Epigram"
• A Feast for Wormes. Set forth in a Poeme of the History of Jonah (1620), which contains other scriptural paraphrases, besides the one that furnishes the title; Hadassa; or the History of Queene Ester (1621)
• Job Militant, with Meditations Divine and Moral (1624)
• Sions Elegies, wept by Jeremie the Prophet (1624)
• Sions Sonets sung by Solomon the King (1624), a paraphrase of the Canticles
• The Historic of Samson (1631)
• Alphabet of Elegies upon ... Dr Aylmer (1625)
• Argalus and Parthenia (1629), the subject of which is borrowed from Philip Sidney's Arcadia
• four books of Divine Fancies digested into Epigrams, Meditations and Observations (1632)
• a reissue of his scriptural paraphrases and the Alphabet of Elegies as Divine Poems (1633)
• Hieroglyphikes of the Life of Man (1638)
• Memorials Upon the Death of Sir Robert Quarles, Knight (1639), in honor of his brother
• Enchyridion, containing Institutions Divine and Moral (1640-41), a collection of four "centuries" of miscellaneous aphorisms
• Observations concerning Princes and States upon Peace and Warre (1642)
• Boanerges and Barnabas--Wine and Oyle for ... afflicted Soules (1644-46), collection of miscellaneous reflections
• three violent Royalist tracts (1644), The Loyal Convert, The Whipper Whipt, and The New Distemper, reissued in one volume in 1645 with the title of The Profest Royalist
• His quarrel with the Times, and some elegies
• Solomon's Recantation ... (1645), which contains a memoir by his widow
• The Shepheards' Oracles (1646)
• A second part of Boanerges and Barnabas (1646)
• A broadside entitled A Direfull Anathema against Peace-haters (1647)
• An interlude, The Virgin Widow (1649)
• Hosanna, or Divine poems on the Passion of Christ

Works about Quarles

• "Quarles, Francis," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Quarles, Francis," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Quarles, Francis," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)