Poems ed. by Grosart, Apologie by Arber and others, Astrophel by Gray, Arber, and others. Life by Fulke Greville (1652), ed. by Sir E. Brydges (1816). Arcadia (facsimile), by Somner.  Lives by J.A.  Symonds, Fox Bourne, and others.

SIGOURNEY, MRS. LYDIA (HUNTLEY) (1791-1865).—­American verse writer, was an extraordinarily copious writer of smooth, sentimental verse, which had great popularity in its day.  Her most ambitious effort was a blank verse poem, Traits of the Aborigines of America (1822).  Other books were Connecticut Forty Years Since, Pocahontas, etc.

SIMMS, WILLIAM GILMORE (1806-1870).—­Novelist, etc., b. at Charleston, South Carolina, began his literary life with journalism.  He then for some time tried poetry, but without any distinct success except occasionally in Southern Passages and Pictures (1839).  But in fiction, which he began in 1833 with Martin Faber, he was more successful, though rather an imitator of Cooper. The Yemassee (1835) is generally considered his best novel.  He was less happy in his attempts at historical romance, such as Count Julian and The Damsel of Darien.  During the war, in which he was naturally a strong partisan of the South, he was ruined, and his library was burned; and from these disasters he never recovered.  He had a high repute as a journalist, orator, and lecturer.  He was the first Southerner to achieve any name in literature.

SKELTON, JOHN (1460?-1529).—­Poet, b. in Norfolk, and ed. at Oxf. and Camb., of both of which he was cr. Poet Laureate, and perhaps held the same office under the King.  He was appointed tutor to Henry VIII., and notwithstanding his sharp tongue, enjoyed some favour at Court.  In 1498 he entered the Church, and became Rector of Diss in his native county.  Hitherto he seems to have produced some translations only, but about this time he appears to have struck upon the vein which he was to work with such vigour and popularity.  He turned his attention to abuses in Church and State, which he lashed with caustic satire, conveyed in short doggerel rhyming lines peculiar to himself, in which jokes, slang, invectives, and Latin quotations rush out pell-mell.  His best works in this line are Why come ye not to Court? and Colin Clout, both directed against the clergy, and the former against Wolsey in particular.  Piqued at his inconstancy (for S. had previously courted him) the Cardinal would have imprisoned him, had he not taken sanctuary in Westminster, where he remained until his death.  Other works of his are The Tunning (brewing) of Elynor Rummynge, a coarsely humorous picture of low life, and the tender and fanciful Death of Philip Sparrow, the lament of a young lady over her pet bird killed by a cat.

SKELTON, SIR JOHN (1831-1897).—­Miscellaneous writer. B. in Edinburgh, ed. at the Univ. there, and called to the Scottish Bar 1854, he was Sec. and ultimately Chairman of the Local Government Board for Scotland.  He wrote Maitland of Lethington and the Scotland of Mary Stuart (1887), The Crookit Meg (1880), and The Table Talk of Shirley.  He contributed to Fraser’s and Blackwood’s Magazines.  He received the degree of LL.D. from Edin. 1878, and was made K.C.B. 1897.