Anthology of eighteenth-century verse, compiled by Mary Capell : Anthology c.1740-1751.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Capell, Mary, author.

Contributor:

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--18th century.

English poetry.

Physical Description:

1 volume (approximately 245 ff.)

Place of Publication:

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2006.

Summary:

Comprises an anthology of over eighty manuscript poems, of which some are dated from 1740 to 1751, with a six-page index at the end. The contents include items by Alexander Pope, Mary Wortley Montagu, and Thomas Gray, various other attributed poems, and many largely anonymous odes, translations from the classics, occasional verses on fashionable society, literature, and rural life

Notes:

AMDigital Reference:Lt 119

Written in a single autograph hand. Signed by 'Mary Capell' on the first folio. The volume is foliated almost throughout in the same hand as the main text. Mary Capell (died 1782) was the daughter of William, third Earl of Essex (died 1743), and in 1758 married John Forbes (1714-1796), Admiral of the Blue; this anthology therefore probably predates 1758. Letters by her to Dr Thomas Birch held in the British Library confirm her interest in literature and also her handwriting in this volume

Local Notes:

Bound in contemporary calf, but with the spine broken, gatherings loose, worn, and with light spotting or dust-staining. Poetical miscellany in a single hand, with an index, c. 1,740-51.

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