abstract:Robert Parry (1540-1612) was a Welsh poet, romancier and translator who published the romance Moderatus and a collection of verse mysteriously entitled Sinetes Passions, which may have influenced Shakespeare's sonnets.
The historian Robert Darnton compares the oral tale tellers to the Yugoslavian bards studied in the twentieth century by Albert Lord and Milman Parry, in the effort to understand how the Homeric epics were composed.