Philip Ayres
Philip Ayres (1638–1712), the author of numerous books and pamphlets, flourished in the latter part of the seventeenth century; was born in Cottingham, and educated at Westminster, and St John's College, Oxford. He became tutor in the family of Montague Garrard Drake, of Agmondesham, Bucks, and lived in the family till his death on 1 December 1712. His chief work is his Lyric poems made in imitation of the Italians (1687), a collection of 32 sonnets, original pieces and translations.
Philip Ayres
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- 1638
- Died
- 1712
- Occupation
- poet
- Education
- St John's College
- Languages
- English
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One copy of verses is addressed to "his honoured friend" John Dryden. Ayres was one of the only sonneteers active between the ages of Milton and Gray. • Illustration — Emblems of love
The following is a list of Ayres's works in chronological order: • A short Account of the Life and Death of Pope Alexander VII, by P. A. Gent., 1667. • Pax Redux, or the Christian Reconciler. Done out of the French by P. A., 1670. • The Fortunate Fool, written in Spanish by A. G. de Salas Barbadillo. Translated by Philip Ayres, Gent., 1670. • Count Nadasdy's Hungarian Rebellion, translated by P. A. Gent., 1672. • The Count of Gabalis, 1680, from the French of the Abbe de Montfaucon de Villars. • Emblemata Amatoria. Emblems of Love. In four languages, Latin, English, Italian, French, 1683. • The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Barth. Sharp and others in the South Sea, &c., 1684. • Vox Clamantis, or an Essay for the Honour, Happiness and Prosperity of the English Gentry, 1684. • Lyric-Poems, made in imitation of the Italians, 1687 • Mythologia Ethica, or Three Centuries of Æsopian Fables in English, 1689. • The Revengeful Mistress, being an Amorous Adventure of an English Gentleman in Spain, 1696. This prose work is either a short novel or a novella.
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Philip Ayres (1638 – 1712) was a writer and translator. Both events are recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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- 1.Bullen, Arthur Henry, «Ayres, Philip», en Stephen, Leslie (ed.), Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 02 (1985). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- 2.Praz (1989), p. 149.
- 3.Westerweel (1997), p. 201.
- 4.The Fortunate Fool. Written in Spanish by Don Alonso Gerónimo de Salas Barbadillo of Madrid. Translated into English by Philip Ayres, Gent., London, 1670. Ejemplar digitalizado en Google libros.
- 5.Praz (1989), p. 145.
- 6.Praz (1989), p. 146.
- 7.La cuestión de si los grabados de Ayres preceden a los de Vianen sigue abierta y el mismo Praz ha cambiado en algún momento de opinión: Westerweel (1997), p. 202. Praz (1989), p. 90, nota 36.
- 8.Blackwell’s rare books, About women, short list76., p. 2 (n.º 4).
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