BROME, Alexander, a minor English poet, was born in 1620, and diedin 1666. He was an attorney in the lord mayor’s court, and was the author of many of the songs and epigrams that were published iu favour of the Royalists and against the Rump. These, together with his epistles and epigrams, translated from different authors, were all printed in one volume, octavo, after the Restoration. He published a translation of Horace by himself and others, and was the author of a comedy entitled The Cunning Lovers. He also edited two volumes of Richard Brome’s plays.

BROME, Richard, a dramatic writer in the reign of Charles I., and a contemporary of Dekker, Ford, Shirley, and others. He was originally a servant of Ben Jonson; but he soon acquired a high Hterary reputation, and was addressed in some lines by his quondam master on account of his comedy entitled The Northern Lass. Brome’s genius lay entirely in comedy. His plots are original and well managed, and his characters, which for the most part are strongly marked, were drawn from his own experience. He has left fifteen comedies. See Ward’s English Dramatic Literature, 1875, vol. ii., for a good notice of Brome.