BIOGRAPHY

Grosart, Alexander B. “Memorial-Introduction.” In The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies, edited by Alexander B. Grosart, pp. xi-cxxiv. London: Chatto and Windus, 1876.

Summarizes Davies's life and works and offers criticism of his poetry.

CRITICISM

Sanderson, James L. “Bérenger de La Tour and Sir John Davies: Two Poets Who Set the Planets Dancing.” Library Chronicle Vol. 37, no. 2 (spring 1971): 116-25.

Compares Orchestra to Choreïde by de La Tour.

Spencer, Theodore. “Two Classic Elizabethans: Samuel Daniel and Sir John Davies.” In Theodore Spencer: Selected Essays, edited by Alan C. Purves, pp. 100-22. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1966.

Discusses Samuel Daniel and Davies as representatives of the beginning and the end of the English Renaissance.

Taylor, A. B. “Sir John Davies and George Chapman: A Note on the Current Approach to Ovids Banquet of Sence.” English Language Notes 12, no. 4 (June 1975): 261-65.

Considers Davies's comments on George Chapman's poem, Ovids Banquet of Sence.

Additional coverage of Davies's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 172; Reference Guide to English Literature, Ed. 2; and Literature Resource Center.