A manuscript anthology of early 19th century English poetry, including works by Lord Byron, John Keats and Anna Letitia Barbauld
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Type of record: Book
Title: A manuscript anthology of early 19th century English poetry, including works by Lord Byron, John Keats and Anna Letitia Barbauld
Other titles: Endymion; Excursion; Ode on a grecian urn; Chevy chase; Fears in solitude; The cotter's Saturday night
Classmark: Manuscripts BC MS Gen 11
Creator(s): Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron (1788-1824)
Additional creator(s): Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) (Other); Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) (Other); Keats, John (1795-1821) (Other); Clare, John (1793-1864) (Other); Burns, Robert (1759-1796) (Other); Barbauld, Mrs (Anna Letitia) (1743-1825) (Other)
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Publication city: [Place of publication not identified]
Date(s): 1825-1830
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 volume (174 leaves)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/375707
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002723709705181
Description
The anthology includes works by the following romantic poets: Lord Byron (including his My Soul is Dark), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (including his Fears in Solitude), William Wordsworth (including his Excursion), John Keats (including his Endymion; and Ode on a Grecian urn), and John Clare (including his What is Life).
There are short biographies that preface a few of the modern poets these include: Lord Byron, Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825), Robert Blair (1699-1746), and Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823).
There are a small number of ancient poets: John Skelton (1460?-1529), Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?-1618), Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), and Rychard Sheale (with his Chevy Chase).
Other poetry includes works by: Mary Tighe (1772-1810), Robert Blair (1699-1746), William Leslie Bowles (1762-1850), Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835), Henry Kirke White (1785-1806), James Montgomery (1771-1854), Robert Burns (includes his The cotter's Saturday night), Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771), Alexander Thomson (1763-1803), Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), Christopher Smart (1722-1771), and Thomas Warton (1728-1790).
Acquried from the bookseller Christopher Edwards in 2009.
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