Author:John Barclay (1582-1621)

John Barclay
(1582–1621)

John Barclay

Works

• Satyricon (1603, 1607), in two parts
• Sylvæ (1606)
• Apologia (1611), regarded as the third part of the 'Satyricon'
• Icon Animorum (1614), generally reckoned as the fourth part of the ‘Satyricon’
• Parænesis ad Sectarios (1617)
• Argenis (1621)
• Euphormionis Lusinini, sive Ioannis Barclaii Satyricon, quadripartitum; nunc denuo recognitum, emendatum,&mirificè illustratum, adjecta clavi, sive obscurorum&quasi ænigmaticorum nominum, in hoc opere passim occurrentium, dilucida explicatione (1623) [1]

Contains the four books of the Satyricon

Works about Barclay

• "Barclay, John, poet," in A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen, (ed.) by Thomas Thomson, Glasgow: Blackie and Son (1857, 2nd edition) in 9 vols.
• "Barclay, John (1582-1621)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Barclay, John," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Barclay, John (Scottish satirist)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "John Barclay," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)