Kendall, Timothy

(fl. 1577)

   Born in North Aston, Oxfordshire, he was educated at Eton and Magdalen Hall, Oxford, but left without graduating and became a law student at Staple Inn, London. In 1577 he published Flowers of Epigrammes (see Sources for full title), a collection in which he lists all the names of authors. Some of his poems: "A Tyrant In Sleep, Naught Differeth from a Common Man," "Calimachus (From Lucianus [B.C. 125, D. After 180])," "To One Diuersly Conditioned," "An Epitaph Vpon the Death of His Deare Aunt Ellen Kendall: Which Died, and Lyes Buried at Bloxam," "Desire of Dominion," "Of a Good Prince and an Evil," "Of a Tiger and a Lion," "The Difference Between a King and a Tyrant," "Timothe Kendal to the Reader," "To His Cosen Ihon Kendall," "Upon the Grave of a Beggar."

   Sources: Dictionary of National Biography. Electronic Edition 1.1. Oxford University Press, 1997. English Poetry, Second Edition Bibliography (http://collections.chadwyck.co.uk/html/ep2/bibliography/g.htm). English Poetry: Author Search. Chadwyck-Healey Ltd., 1995 (http://www.lib.utexas.edu:8080/search/epoetry/author.html). Flovvers of Epigrammes, Ovt of sundrie the moste singular authours selected, as well auncient as late writers. Pleasant and profitable to the expert readers of quicke capacitie: By Timothe Kendall. London: Imprinted. by Ihon Shepperd (1577). The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry. 11th ed. The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry, Columbia University Press, 2005 (http://www.columbiagrangers.org). The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse. Emrys Jones, ed. Oxford University Press, 1991. The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation. Adrian Poole and Jeremy Maule, eds. 1995.