um or a
simple country ditty, the result is always full of unstudied freshness
and tuneful charm. In some of his sacred pieces he is particularly
successful, combining real poetry with genuine religious fervour.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.--_Works_, &c., ed. A.H. Bullen (1889) excluding _A New
Way_, &c.; _Songs and Masques_, ed. A.H. Bullen (1903), with an
introduction on Campion's music by Janet Dodge; _Poems_, &c. (in
English), ed. P. Vivian (1907); _Complete Works_, ed. P. Vivian
(Clarendon Press, 1908). The "Observations in the Art of English
Poesie" are also published in Haslewood's _Ancient Critical Essays_
and Gregory Smith's _Elizabethan Critical Essays_, vol. ii. (1903).
(P. Vn.)

CAMPISTRON, JEAN GALBERT DE (1656-1723), French dramatist, was born at
Toulouse of noble family in 1656. At the age of seventeen he was wounded
in a duel and sent to Paris. Here he became an ardent disciple of
Racine. If he copied his master's methods of construction with some
success, in the execution of his plans he never advanced beyond
mediocrity, nor did he ever approach the secret of the musical lines of
_Athalie_ and _Phedre_. He secured the patronage of the influential
duchesse de Bouillon by dedicating _Arminius_ to her, and in 1685 he
scored his first success with _Andronic_, which disguised under other
names the tragic story of Don Carlos and Elizabeth of France. The piece
made a great sensation, but Campistron's treatment is weak, and he
failed to avail himself of the possibilities inherent in his subject.
Racine was asked by Louis Joseph, duc de Vendome, to write the book of
an opera to be performed at a fete given in honour of the Dauphin. He
handed on the commission to Campistron, who produced _Acis et Galathee_
for Lulli's music. Campistron had another success in _Tiridate_ (1691),
in which he treated, again under changed names, the biblical story of
Amnon's passion for his sister Tamar. He wrote many other tragedies and
two comedies, one of which, _Le Jaloux desabuse_, has been considered by
some judges to be his best work. In 1686 he had been made intendant to
the duc de Vendome and followed him to Italy and Spain, accompanying him
on all his campaigns. If he was not a good poet he was an honest man
under circumstances in which corruption was easy and usual. Many honours
were conferred on him. The king of Spain bestowed on him the order of St
James of the Sword; the duke of Mantua made him marquis of P