A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Bodenham, John

by John William Cousin

Bodenham, John (fl. 1600).—Anthologist, is stated to have been the ed. of some of the Elizabethan anthologies, viz., ''Politeuphuia'' (''Wits' Commonwealth'') (1597), Wits' Theater (1598), Belvidere, or the Garden of the Muses (1600), and England's Helicon (1600). Mr. Bullen says that B. did not himself ed. any of the Elizabethan miscellanies attributed to him by bibliographers: but that he projected their publication, and he befriended the editors.