The reprisal; Britannia; and Ad versutum cardinalem : Poetry c.1709-1742.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--18th century.

English poetry.

Physical Description:

1 volume (64 ff.).

Place of Publication:

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2006.

Summary:

Seemingly autograph versions of two manuscript English poems bound together with a manuscript Latin poem, each provided with its own title page, apparently in separate hands of the first half of the 18th century. Ff.1r-25r: 'The reprisal: or Sp---sh [i.e. Spanish] expedition', political satire, ca.1726 (possibly Jacobite) on the peace negotiations following the wars with Spain, contrasting them with past victories such as that of Sir Francis Drake over the Spanish Armada; ff.26r-49v: 'Britannia, an historic poem: by way of essay on the glories of Her Majesties reign', ecstatic eulogy of Queen Anne, 1709, praising the order that she has brought to Britain, and of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, celebrating his victories in the Low Countries, particularly at Oudenarde; ff.50r-62r: 'Ad versutum card---lem [i.e. cardinalem], carmen nothelikon [Greek]. Cum praefatione expostulatoria', poem, 1742, with prose preface, all in Latin, on Cardinal Fleury

Notes:

AMDigital Reference:Lt 73

In English and Latin

Local Notes:

Bound in red half-morocco, marbled boards, ca.1,830s.

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