Crossword-Solution: TAMIA 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Because champions of poetry were concerned with answering this attack, the bulk of Elizabethan criticism, that of Lodge, [Footnote: _Defense of Poetry, Musick and Stage Plays._] Harrington, [Footnote: _Apology for Poetry._] Meres, [Footnote: _Palladis Tamia._] Campion, [Footnote: _Observations in the Art of English Poetry._] Daniel, [Footnote: _Defense of Rhyme._] and even in lesser degree of Sidney, obscures the aesthetic problem by turning it into an ethical one.

Here it will suffice to say shortly that _A Midsummer-Night's Dream_, first published in 1600, must have been acted before or during 1598, as it is definitely mentioned in Mores' _Palladic Tamia_ of that year.

Brit._] [Footnote 6: See Arber's Reprints for 1868.] [Footnote 7: Arber's Select Reprints.] [Footnote 8: _Palladis Tamia: Wits Treasury_.] [Footnote 9: This, of course, was Marston.] [Footnote 10: From the Fifth Satire in _The Metamorphosis of Pygmalion's Image and Certain Satyres_, by John Marston.

Meres was a learned graduate of Cambridge University, a divine and schoolmaster, who brought out in 1598 a collection of apophthegms on morals, religion, and literature which he entitled 'Palladis Tamia.' In the book he interpolated 'A comparative discourse of our English poets with the Greek, Latin, and Italian poets,' and there exhaustively surveyed contemporary literary effort in England.

Meres, after his mention of Shakespeare's sonnets in his _Palladis Tamia_ (1598), quotes parts of both passages from Horace and Ovid, and gives a Latin paraphrase of his own, which, he says, would fit the lips of our contemporary poets besides Shakespeare.