Robert Anton
Robert Anton or Anthony (fl. 1616) was an English poet and satirist.
Life
Supposedly a son of George Anton, recorder of Lincoln, Robert Anton was born in St Leonard's, Foster Lane, London. He graduated B.A. from Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1609–10. Ordained deacon in 1610, he became curate of Shalford, Surrey in 1616 and was ordained priest at Gloucester in 1618.[1]
A unique quarto prose tract of Anton's, in black letter, entitled Moriomachia, imprinted at London by Simon Stafford, 1613, is preserved in
Ariosto). The chief interest of the book, which is written in curiously strained language, lies in the references to Beaumont, Spenser, Jonson, Chapman, and Daniel. One Shakespearian allusion occurs—' What Comedies of errors swell the stage,' &c.[3]
Notes
- ^ "Anton or Anthony, Robert (ANTN606R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004, accessed 18 September 2010
- ^ Bullen 1885.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bullen, Arthur Henry (1885). "Anton, Robert". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.- Burrow, Colin. "Anton, Robert (fl. 1606–1618)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/592. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
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