BROME

brome, alexander (1620-1666), english poet, was by profession an attorney, and was the author of many drinking songs and of satirical verses in favour of the royalists and against the rump. he published in 1661 _songs and other poems_, containing songs on various subjects, followed by a series of political songs; ballads, epistles, elegies and epitaphs; epigrams and translations. izaak walton wrote an introductory eclogue for this volume in praise of the writer, and his gaiety and wit won for him the title of the "english anacreon" in edward phillips's _theatrum poetarum_. brome published in 1666 a translation of horace by himself and others, and was the author of a comedy entitled _the cunning lovers_ (1654). he also edited two volumes of richard brome's plays.