Everard (sometimes Edward) Guilpin (sometimes Gilpin) is remembered primarily as the writer of Skialetheia; Or, A Shadow of Truth, in Certain Epigrams and Satires (1598), a collection of seventy epigrams and seven formal verse satires modeled after Martial and Juvenal, the major classical influences, respectively, on Elizabethan epigram and satire. In accounts of formal verse satire in England, Guilpin ranks just behind John Donne, Joseph Hall, and John Marston; in studies of the influence of Martial he is grouped with John Harington, John Davies (to whose epigrams his are related, perhaps indebted), and Ben Jonson. Although published anonymously, Skialetheia can readily be attributed to Guilpin because excerpts in the anthology England's Parnassus (1600) carry his initials. He had connections with Donne and Marston, both of whose satires are quite like those in Skialetheia . Donne dedicated a verse letter "To Mr. E. G.," and Marston, whose uncle seems to have been...