The Art of domestick happiness : and other poems / by the recluse, author of The independency of the mind, affirmed.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Patterson, Robert, active 1817, supposed author.

Bolton, A. M. (Aquila Massey), 1773-1857, supposed author.

Recluse.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Coxe, Brinton, 1833-1892 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Yarnall, Charlton, 1864-1959? (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

316 pages ; 15 cm

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : Published by Robert Patterson, 1817.

Notes:

"Printed by Butler and Lambdin."--T.p. verso.

"Errata": p. [317].

Often attributed to Robert Patterson who used the pseudonym "The recluse" on his volumes of poetry as stated by Leland D. Baldwin in his "Pittsburgh, the story of a city," 1937, p. 161. However internal evidence points to A.M. Bolton as the author. In the 'Elegy on the death of Rebecca Bolton,' p. [177] the author refers to "a cousin's memory." 'Alexis and Thirza: an elegaic ecologue consecrated to the memory of Mordecai Yarnall' (p. 180) and 'On the loss of l'Epervier' (p. [201]), with references to John Joliffe Yarnall, are undoubtedly tributes to relatives of Bolton's wife, Phoebe Yarnall.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has note written in ms. on the front free endpaper "This book was given to me by Mr. Brinton Coxe about 1890. See poems on pages 174 and 180. C.Y. Philadelphia, February 29, 1920. The poem on p. 174 is "Elegy on the death of James Coxe, of Philadelphia, written in the West Indies" while the poem on p. 180 is "Alexis and Thirza: an elegiac ecologue, consecrated to the memory of Mordecai Yarnall, late of Philadelphia".

Cited in:

Sabin, 2119

Shaw & Shoemaker, 40022

Wegelin, O. Amer. Poetry, 1079

OCLC:

6503167