The Cambridge edition of the works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea / Anne Finch ; Jennifer Keith, text and commentary, Claudia Thomas Kairoff, commentary, Jean I. Marsden, associate editor, commentary on the plays with the assistance of Rachel Bowman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winchilsea, Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of, 1661-1720, author.

Contributor:

A. H. Scouten Memorial Fund.

Keith, Jennifer (Jennifer Marie), editor, writer of added commentary.

Kairoff, Claudia Thomas, editor, writer of added commentary.

Marsden, Jean I., writer of added commentary.

Bowman, Rachel, writer of added commentary.

Standardized Title:

Works

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Winchilsea, Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of, 1661-1720.

Winchilsea, Anne Kingsmill Finch.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustartions ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019-2021.

Summary:

"This is the first ever complete critical edition of the writings of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720), including work printed in her lifetime and material left in manuscript form at her death. Textual analysis, based on print and manuscript copies in repositories across the United Kingdom and the United States, reveals her revision processes and uses of manuscript and print. Extensive commentary clarifies her techniques, sources, contexts, and diction. A detailed essay traces the history of her works' reception and transmission. The result is a complete view of her achievements that will promote more accurate assessments of her contributions to literary and cultural shifts, including perspectives on literary value, women's equality, religion, and affairs of state. This first volume provides established texts of Finch's early manuscript books, including Poems on Several Subjects and Miscellany Poems with Two Plays written under her pen name, Ardelia"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: v. 1 EARLY MANUSCRIPT BOOKS

From "Poems on Several Subjects Written by Ardelia" (The Northamptonshire Manuscript)

On My Selfe

A Letter to Mr Finch from Tunbridge Wells August 17th 1685

The Grove Written When I Was a Maid of Honour

A Maxim for the Ladys Translated from the French of Monsieur de Bussy ("Love; but lett this")

Reflections upon Part of the 8th. Verse of the 148. Psalm. Winds and Storms Fullfilling His Word. In a Pindarick Poem upon the Late Hurrycane Concluding with an Hymn Compos'd of the 148th. Psalm Paraphras'd

"Miscellany Poems with Two Plays by Ardelia" (The Folger Manuscript)

To the Most Ingenious Mrs: Finch on Her Incomperable Poems [by William Shippen]

An Epistle, from Mrs: Randolph to Mrs: Finch; upon Her Presenting Her with Some of Her Poems [by Grace Randolph]

The Preface

The Introduction

From the French Translation of the Aminta of Tasso ("Though we of small")

From the French Translation of the Aminta of Tasso, Part of the Description of the Golden Age

A Song of the Canibals, out of Mountains Essays; Done into English Verse, Paraphrased

A Letter to Dafnis April: 2d: 1685

A Letter to Flavio

To My Sister Ogle Decbr-31-1688-

Ardelia's Answer to Ephelia, Who Had Invited Her to Come to Her in Town

Reflecting on the Coquetterie and Detracting Humour of the Age

To a Freind in Praise of the Invention of Writing Letters

Clarinda's Indifference at Parting with Her Beauty

From the Muses, at Parnassus (a Hill So Call'd in Eastwell Park. to the Right Honble: the Ldy: Maidston on My Lord Winchilsea's Birthday

The Bird

Ardelia to Melancholy

The Losse

The Consolation

Caesar and Brutus

To the Eccho, in a Clear Night upon Astrop Walks

The Tree

On the Lord Dundee

A Maxim for the Ladys Translated from Monsr. du Bussy ("From the best witt")

Written before a French Book Entitl'd Les moyens de seguerir de I'Amour

Freindship between Ephelia and Ardelia

The Change

A Miller, His Son, and Their Asse. A Fable Translated from Monsr: de La Fontaine

From the French, of the 188th: Sonnet of Petrarc

Melinda on an Insipped Beauty in Immitation of a Fragment of Sapho's

Ralpho's Reflections upon the Anniversary of His Wedding

A Song for a Play Alcander to Melinda

A Song Melinda to Alcander

A Song ("By Love persu'd")

A Song ("Miranda, hides her")

A Song ("Whilst Thirsis")

A Song ("Persuade me not")

Jealousie a Song

A Song ("Love, thou art best")

A Song on Greife Sett by Mr: Estwick

A Song ("Quickly Delia")

A Song ("Tis strange, this heart")

A Song ("The Nymph in vain")

The Bargain a Song in Dialogue between Bacchus and Cupid

A Song for My Brother Les: Finch upon a Punch Bowl

A Song ("If for a Woman")

A Song ("Lett the fool")

A Song ("Strephon, whose Person")

A Moral Song ("Wou'd we attain")

On Absence from the Maxims of Bussy-Rabutin

An Episde from Alexander to Ephestion in His Sicknesse

An Invitation to Dafnis to Leave His Study and Usual Employments - Mathematicks Painting &c and to Take the Pleasures of the Feilds with Ardelia

The Circuit of Appollo

Upon My Lord Winchilsea's Converting the Mount in His Garden to a Terras, and Other Alterations, and Improvements, in His House, Park, and Gardens

An Epistle, from Ardelia to Mrs: Randolph, in Answer to Her Poem, upon Her Verses

Upon the Death of the Right Honorable William Lord Maidston Who Was a Volonteere in the Sol-bay Fight and Kill'd by a Random Shott after the Fight Was Over and the Fleets Parted on May the 28th: 1672

A Prologue, to Don Carlos; Acted by Yong Ladys. Anno 1696

Jealousie Is the Rage or a Man

The Spleen

To Daphnis, Who Going Abroad, Had Disired Ardelia to Write Some Verses, upon Whatever Subject She Thought Fitt, against His Return in the Evening

Some Peices out of the First Act of the Aminta of Tasso

Dafne's Answer to Silvia, Declaring She Should Esteem All as Enemies Who Shou'd Talk to Her of Love, or Endeavour to Persuade Her from Her Virgin Life

Amintor Being Ask'd by Thirsis Who Is the Object of His Love Speaks as Follows

Thirsis Persuades Amintor Not to Dispair, upon the Predictions of Mopsus, Discovering Him to Be an Impostor

Verses, Incerted in a Letter to My Lady Thanet; Being an Enquiry after Peace; and Shewing that What the World Generally Persues, Is Contrary to It

The Triumphs of Love and Innocence: A Tragecomedy

An Advertisment

Aristomenes or the Royal Shepheard a Tragedy

Prologue to My Lord Winchilsea, upon the First Reading the Play to Him, at Eastwell in Kent

Epilogue

A Song Designd to Have Been Brought into the Part between Climander and Herminia

Aditional Poems Cheifly upon Subjects Devine and Moral

Psalm the 137th: Paraphras'd to the 7th: Verse

A Preparation to Prayer

A Pastoral between Menalcus and Damon on the Appearance

Of the Angels to the Shepheards on Our Saviour's Birth-Day

On Easter Day

Hallelujah

Some Reflections in a Dialogue between Teresa, and Ardelia. On the 2d. and 3d. Verses, of the 73d: Psalm

To Death

The 10th: Part of the 119th: Psalm Paraphrased, in the Manner of a Prayer from the 1st: to the 6th: Verse

The 146th. Psalm Paraphras'd

Gold Is Try'd in the Fire, and Acceptable Men, in the Time of Adversity

On Affliction

The Poor Man's Lamb. Or Nathan's Parable to David, after the Murther of Uriah, and His Mariage with Bathsheba. Turn'd into Verse, and Paraphrased

The Second Chapter of the Wisdom of Solomon, Paraphrased. The First Twelve Verses, Being an Introduction

The Petition for an Absolute Retreat. Inscribed to the Right Honorable Catharine Countesse of Thanet; Mention'd in the Poem, under the Name of Arminda

Upon the Death of Sir William Twisden

AH Is Vanity

A Poem for the Birth Day of the Right Honorable the Lady Catherine Tufton Occasion'd by Sight of Some Verses upon That Subject for the Preceding Year Compos'd by No Eminent Hand

To Dr: Waldron a Fellow of Allsouls Colledge in Oxford Who in a Letter Acknowledg'd His Mistake in Having Lefte That Society and the Muses to Follow the Practise of Phisick

A Pastoral Dialogue between Two Shepheardesses

Cupid and Folly a Fable Immittated from the French

Adam Pos'd

The Appology

Upon Ardelia's Return Home (after Too Long a Walk in Eastwell-Park) in a Water Cart Driven by One of the Under-Keepers in His Green Coat, with a Hazle-Bough for a Whip. July. 1689

A Sigh

Life's Progresse

The Equipage Written Originally in French by L'Abbe Reigner

The Unequal Fetters

Timely Advice to Dorinda

The Cautious Lovers

A Poem. Occasion'd by the Sight of the 4th: Epistle Liber Epistolarum 1. of Horace; Immitated and Inscrib'd to Richard Thornhill Esq by Mr Rowe, Who Had before Sent Heither, Another Translation from Horace

To the Honorable the Lady Worsley at Long-Leate Who Had Most Obligingly Desired My Corresponding with Her by Letters

Honour a Song

The Goute and Spider a Fable Immitated from Monsr. de La Fontaine and Inscribed to Mr: Finch after His First Fitt of That Distemper

Love Death and Reputation a Fable

Alcidor

The King and the Shepheard a Fable Immitated from the French

There's No To-morrow a Fable from L'Estrange

Jupiter and the Farmer: A Fable

For the Better a Fable

The Jester, and the Little Fishes, a Fable, Immitated from the French

An Invocation to Sleep

Hope

Some Occasional Reflections Digested (tho Not with Great Regularity. into a Poem

To the Nightingale

Verses Written under the King of Sweden's Picture

To the Rt. Honble the Lady C

Tufton upon Adressing to Me the First Letter That Ever She Writt

at the Age of

Upon the Death of King James the Second

Explanatory and Textual Notes

List of Source Copies

Selected Bibliography

v. 2 LATER COLLECTIONS PRINT AND MANUSCRIPT

From Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions

Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions: The Complete List of Contents

The Bookseller to the Reader

Mercury and the Elephant.

A Prefatory Fable

The Prevalence of Custom

The Mussulman's Dream of the Vizier and Dervis

The Shepherd Piping to the Fishes

The Decision of Fortune. A Fable

The Brass-Pot, and Stone-Jugg. A Fable

Fanscomb Barn. In Imitation of Milton

A Description of One of the Pieces of Tapistry at Long-Leat, Made after the Famous Cartons of Raphael; in Which, Elymas the Sorcerer Is Miraculously Struck Blind by St. Paul before Sergius Paulus, the Proconsul of Asia. Inscribed to the Honblc Henry Thynne, under the Name of Theanor

Part of the Fifth Scene in the Second Act of Athalia, a Tragedy, Written in French by Monsieur Racine

The Following Lines Occasion'd by the Marriage of Edward Herbert Esquire, and Mrs. Elizabeth Herbert

La Passion Vaincue. Done into English with Liberty

The Owl Describing Her Young Ones

The Philosopher, the Young Man, and His Statue

The Hog, the Sheep, and Goat, Carrying to a Fair

The Shepherd and the Calm

The Lord and the Bramble

The House of Socrates

The Young Rat and His Dam, the Cock and the Cat

The Executor

A Tale of the Miser, and the Poet. Written about the Year 1709

Enquiry after Peace. A Fragment

On the Death of the Honourable Mr. James Thynne, Younger Son to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Weymouth

The Critick and the Writer of Fables

Contents note continued: An Epistie from a Gentleman to Madam Deshouliers, Returning Money She Had Lent Him at Bassette, upon the First Day of Their Acquaintance. Translated with Liberty from the French

To Edward Jenkinson, Esq; a Very Young Gendeman, Who Writ a Poem on Peace

To the Painter of an Ill-Drawn Picture of Cleone, the Honorable Mrs. Thynne

The Atheist and the Acorn

The Tradesman and the Scholar

Man's Injustice towards Providence

The Eagle, the Sow, and the Cat

The Man Bitten by Fleas

Reformation

Fragment at Tunbridge-Wells

The Lyon and the Gnat

The Man and His Horse

Glass

The Dog and His Master

The Phoenix. A Song

Fragment ("So here confin'd")

The Battle between the Rats and the Weazles

Democritus and His Neighbours. Imitated from Fontaine

A Nocturnal Reverie

The Wellesley Manuscript

On Lady Cartret Drest Like a Shepherdess at Count Volcra's Ball

The Puggs a Dialogue between an Old and Young Dutch Mastiff

A Letter from Sr A. F. to Ardelia [by Sir Andrew Fountaine]

The Agreeable in an Answer to the Foregoing Letter by Ardelia

To Flavia, by Whose Perswasion, I Undertook the Following Paraphrase

To the Right Honble: the Countess of Winchilsea. On Her Obliging Compliance with My Request, to Paraphrase the Last Chapter in Eclesiastes [by Catherine Fleming]

The Last Chapter of Eclesiastes Paraphras'd. Inscribed to Mrs: Catherine Fleming

To His Excellency the Lord Cartret at Stockholm. Upon Recieving from Him a Picture in Miniature of Charles the Twelth King of Sweden

On the Death of the Queen

Upon Lady Selena Shirly's Picture Drawn by Mr Dagar

To the Right Honourable Frances Countess of Hartford Who Engaged Mr. Eusden to Write upon a Wood Enjoining Him to Mention No Tree but the Aspin and No Flower but the King-cup

An Hymn of Thanksgiving after a Dangerous Fit of Sickness. In the Year 1715

To the Revd. Mr. Bedford

An Epistle to Mrs Catherine Fleming at Coleshill in Warwickshire but Hastily Perform'd and Not Corrected. London October the 18th: 1718 ("Tis now my dearest")

Upon an Impropable Undertaking

A Letter to Mrs: Arrabella Marow

Advertisement for the Gazette, Flying Post, Weekly Journal Sec.

[Sir Plausible]

A Letter to the Honble: Lady Worseley at Long-Leat. Lewston August the 10th: 1704

A Ballad to Mrs: Catherine Fleming in London from Malshanger Farm in Hampshire ("From me who whileom")

After Drawing a Twelf Cake at the Honble: Mrs Thynne's

The White Mouses Petition to Lamira the Right Honble: the Lady Ann Tufton Now Countess of Salisbury

To the Honble. Mrs. H

n ("Where is the trust")

The Agreeable

The Misantrope

To the Right Honble: Ann Countess of Winchilsea Occasion'd by Four Verses in the Rape of the Lock [by Alexander Pope]

To Mr Pope in Answer to a Coppy of Verses, Occasion'd by a Little Dispute, upon Four Lines in the Rape of the Lock

An Apology for My Fearfull Temper in a Letter in Burlesque upon the Firing of My Chimney at Wye College March 25th: 1702

These Verses Were Inserted in a Letter to the Right Honble: the Lady Vicountess Weymouth Written from Lewston the Next Day after My Parting with Her at Long Leat

On My Being Charged with Writing a Lampoon at Tunbridge

To the Lord March upon the Death of His Sparrow

To a Lady Who Having Desired Me to Compose Somthing upon the Foregoing Subject Prevail'd with Me to Speak the Four First Lines Extempore and Wou'd Have Had Me So Proceeded in the Rest Which I Sent to Her at More Leasure, with the Following Verses

Under the Picture of Sr George Rooke

Under the Picture of Mr John Dryden

Under the Picture of Marshall Turenne Taken from His Epitaph Written in French

Over the Picture of Major Pownoll

Mary Magdalen at Our Saviour's Tomb a Fragment

Moderation or the Wolves and the Sheep. A Fable

To the Rt. Honble. the Ld Viscount Hatton &c.

A Suplication for the Joys of Heaven

From St. Austin's Manual English'd by Roger's Chapter the 3d: The Desire of That Soul Which Hath a Feeling of God

The Happynesse of a Departed Soul

An Aspiration

The Following Poem Is Taken from the Episde for the Monday before Easter

To the Right Honble: the Lord Viscount Hatton by Way of Excuse for My Having Not in Sometime Replied to His Last Copy of Verses in Which He Gives Himself the Name of Corydon Not Approved by Me Who in This Poem Offer at an Imitation of Madame Deshouliers in Her Way of Badinage

A Tale ("Over a cheerfull")

The Lawrell

Occasion'd by the Death of Collonel Baggot, Who Had Been Groom of the Bedchamber to King James, Together with Collonel Finch (Now Earl of Winchilsea) and Captain Lloyd &c.

On These Words.

For as Much as Ye Did It unto the Least of These My Brethren Ye Did It unto Me

On These Words Thou Hast Hedg'd in My Way with Thorns

A Act of Contrition

An Ode Written upon Christmasse Eve in the Year 1714 upon These Words And Again They Said Alleluia. Inscribed to the Rt: Honble. the Lady Catherine Jones

Written after a Violent and Dangerous Fitt of Sicknesse in the Year 1715

At First Waking

A Prayer for Salvation

No Grace

A Contemplation

Additional Poems

An Invocation to the Southern Winds Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Winchelsea at His Arrival in London, after Having Been Long Detained on the Coast of Holland

The Tunbridge Prodigy ("Protect our State, and let our Marlbro' Thrive")

The Prodigy ("Protect the State and let old England thrive")

The Nightingale, and the Cuckoo

To Mr. Jervais on the Sight of Mrs. Chetwinds Picture

An Epilogue to the Tragedy of Jane Shore. To Be Spoken by Mrs. Oldfield the Night before the Poet's Day

To Mrs. Arabella Marrow upon the Death of Lady Marrow

An Epistle to the Honourable Mrs. Thynne, Persuading Her to Have a Statue Made of Her Youngest Daughter, Now Lady Brooke

To the Countess of Hartford on Her Lord's Birth-day

The Fall of Caesar

A Fable ("A Man whose house")

The Mastif and Curs, a Fable Inscrib'd to Mr. Pope

The Toad Undrest

Upon a Double Stock-July-Flower, Full Blown in January, and Presented to Me, by the Rt: Honble. the Countesse of Ferrers, from Twittenham

To Mr. Pope ("The Muse, of ev'ry heav'nly gift allow'd")

A Ballad to Mrs Catherine Fleming at the Lord Digby's at Coles-hill in Warwickshire ("To Cole's-hill seat")

To the Right Honourable the Countesse of Hartford ("Of sleeplesse Nights")

A Song on the South Sea

A Fragment of a Dessign'd Poem upon Pitty, Found in a Loose Paper Written with [] Own Hand

On a Short Vissit Inscribd to My Lady Worsley

To a Fellow Scribbler

Correspondence

A Reception and Transmission History of Finch's Work: Illustrative Cases from the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries / Rachel Bowman

Finch's Reach

Discovery and Recovery: Anonymous Printing and Unprinted Poems

Changing Tastes and Values

Revisions and Rediscoveries in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Claudia Thomas Kairoff: Selected References to and Reprintings of Finch's Works

Rachel Bowman: Finch as Playwright

Finch: Life and Poems.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the A. H. Scouten Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Finch, Anne, The Cambridge edition of the works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

ISBN:

9780521196222

0521196221

9781107068605

1107068606

9781107068650

1107068657

OCLC:

908698736

Publisher Number:

99984227378

99987710720