Author:Samuel Pordage

Samuel Pordage
(1633–1691)

Works

• Poems upon several occasions by S.P. (1660)
• Heroick stanzas on his Majesties coronation (1661)
• Mundorum Explicatio: or, The Explanation of an Hieroglyphical Figure Wherein are Couched the Mysteries of the External, Internal, and Eternal Worlds, Shewing the True Progress of a Soul from the Court of Babylon to the City of Jerusalem, from the Adamical Fallen State to the Regenerate and Angelical (1661) (attributed by some to both Samuel and John Pordage
  • "Sacred flames of love divine", hymn from this work.
• Pathologiæ cerebri et nervosi generis specimen (1681), also by Thomas Willis
• Anti-Achitophel: Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden (1682), also by Elkanah Settle
• Azaria and Hushai a poem (1682), also by Elkanah Settle
• The medal revers'd: a satyre against persecution (1682)
• The loyal incendiary, or, The generous boutefieu a poem occasioned by the report of the owners bravely setting fire to the Rye House, as the King came from Newmarket (1684)

Drama

• Herod and Mariamne a tragedy (1673), also by Elkanah Settle
• The siege of Babylon (1678)

Translations

• Troades (1660), also by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• Two discourses concerning the soul of brutes which is that of the vital and sensitive of man (1683), also by Thomas Willis
• Dr. Willis's practice of physick (1684), also by Thomas Willis

Works about Pordage

• "Pordage, Samuel," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Pordage, Samuel," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)