The desolation of Eyam, The emigrant, a tale of the American woods, and other poems / by William and Mary Howitt ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howitt, William, 1792-1879, author.

Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham), 1799-1888, author.

Contributor:

Wightman and Cramp, publisher.

Oliver and Boyd (Edinburgh, Scotland), bookseller.

William Curry, Jun. & Co., bookseller.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--19th century.

English poetry.

Genre:

Publishers' advertisements.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Edwards, James O., 1943- (bookplate) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Smith, G. T. (George Timms), 1856-1944? (stamp) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

iv, vii-xiii, [4], 4-322, [6] pages, [1] leaf of plates ; 17 cm

Distribution:

[Edinburgh] : Sold also by Oliver and Boyd ; Dublin : and W. Curry, Jun. and Co.

Place of Publication:

London : Wightman and Cramp, Paternoster Row ..., 1827.

Contents:

To Bernard Barton

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The desolation of Eyam, &c.

Poems. The legendary harp ; "Away to the bosky glens" ; Tyre ; A highland group ; A sister's recollections ; Death in spring ; A hymn of the night ; Summer and the poet ; T. J.H. Wiffen ; Human destiny ; Sonnet ; Sonnet ; The pilgrimage of fancy ; Calláo in 1747 ; To a nightingale ; Lament for the mariner ; The blight of the spirit ; Cowslips ; The last eve of Saul ; Sonnet

The emigrant

Surrey in captivity ; The pen ; Sonnet ; "Would I had wist" ; To a dear little girl ; Hart's well ; A remembered face ; The record of poetry ; The mountain tombs ; The maid of Sestos

Penn and the Indians

To the spirit of departed greatness ; The poet's doom ; The adopted warrior ; Visions of song ; Ode to botany ; To a child ; The presage ; To a sceptic ; Inscription for the tomb of Hofer ; The rhododendron of the Alps ; A sketch ; The two voyagers

A poet's thoughts on the interment of Lord Byron

The island patriots ; The apostate ; "There's no place like home" ; Sonnet in conclusion.

Notes:

Added engraved title leaf

Publisher's advertisement at end of volume.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has bookplate ("J.O. EDWARDS") of James O. Edwards on front pastedown.

Schimmel Collection copy has stamp ("G.T. Smith Oakthorpe Cottage Bounds Green") of George Timms Smith (1856-1944?) on blank leaf following front free endpaper.

OCLC:

6048556