The Cambridge edition of the works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea. Volume 2, Later collections, print and manuscript / Jennifer Keith, text and commentary ; Claudia Thomas Kairoff, Commentary ; with the assistance of Rachel Bowman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

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

Kairoff, Claudia Thomas, editor, 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:

1 online resource (cxxix, 663 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 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 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 second volume provides established texts of Finch's later collections in print and manuscript form, Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions (1713) and The Wellesley Manuscript, as well as uncollected poems and letters.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Series page

Frontispiece

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Chronology

List of Abbreviations

Note

General Introduction

From William to Anne

Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions (1713)

From Anne to George

The Wellesley Manuscript

The Ensuing Years

Textual Introduction

The Present Edition: Contents and Editorial Procedures

Presentation of the Texts, Explanatory and Textual Notes

Account of the Texts

Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions

An Overview of the Issues Printed

Copy-Text

Textual Variation in Finch's Authorized Print Volume

Some Terms

Title-Page Variants

Canceled Leaves and Stop-Press Corrections

Errata and Heneage's Corrections

Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions. Written by a Lady.

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 Honble 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.

An Epistle 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 Gentleman, who writ a Poemon 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.

The Battle between the Rats and the Weazles.

Democritus and his Neighbours. Imitated from Fontaine.

A Nocturnal Rêverie.

On Lady Cartret drest like a shepherdess at Count Volcra's ball.

The puggs a dialogue between an old &amp

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. Eusdento write upon a wood enjoining him to mention no tree but the Aspin &amp

no flower but the King-cup.

An Hymn of Thanks giving 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 &amp

not corrected. London October the 18th: 1718.

Upon an impropable undertaking

A letter to Mrs: Arrabella Marow.

Advertisement for the Gazette, Flying post, Weekly journal &amp

c.

[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

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.

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 PopeIn 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 &amp

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 Epistle 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 Poemoffer at an imitation of Madame Deshouliers in herway of Badinage.

A Tale.

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) &amp

Captain Lloyd &amp

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.

The prodigy

The Nightingale, &amp

the Cuckoo.

To Mr. Jervaison 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 Cæsar.

A Fable.

The Mastif and Curs, A Fableinscrib'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 Twitten ham.

To Mr. Pope

A Ballad to Mrs Catherine Fleming at the Lord Digby's at Coles-hill in Warwickshire.

To the Right Honourable The Countesse of Hartford

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.

Explanatory and Textual Notes

Correspondence

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

Finch's Reach.

Discovery and Recovery: Anonymous Printing and Unprinted Poems.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jun 2021).

ISBN:

1-108-57845-4

1-107-70602-5

OCLC:

1295280674