Note 266 — Chapter I · (continued 2)
Reading edition
Sabin, vol. x. no. 38,879. Harrisse (Notes on Columbus, p. 190) enumerates some of the earlier and later poems, plays, sonnets, etc., wholly or incidentally illustrating the career of Columbus. Cf. also his Fernand Colomb, p. 131, and Larousse’s Grand dictionnaire universel, vol. iv. The earliest mention of Columbus in English poetry is in Baptist Goodall’s Tryall of Trauell, London, 1630.