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Miscellany of original early eighteenth century English poetry with East Anglian connections, by Robert Worlidge : Commonplace book c.1700-1720.
Literary Manuscripts Leeds: Sources from The Brotherton Library, University of Leeds Available online
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- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Worlidge, Robert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--18th century.
- English poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (64 ff.)
- Summary:
- Contains 64 original eighteenth-century English religious poems by Robert Worlidge, including an extended poetical paraphrase of the Book of Ruth, a collection of poems on the deaths of members of the More family of Framlingham, Suffolk, which is dated 1702, many acrostics, including one on his own name, and another later on that of Queen Anne, and various other hymns and Biblical paraphrases
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference:Lt 107
- Written in a single and quite fine calligraphic hand, probably the author's autograph, with some rubrication. The name 'R.W. Sutton' is written in ink on the outside front cover, probably a mark of ownership. Robert Worlidge (fl. 1710) is not otherwise known
- Local Notes:
- Bound in vellum with some blind tooling on the covers.
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