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: Archive
Title: A manuscript anthology of early 19th century English poetry, including works by Lord Byron, John Keats and Anna Letitia Barbauld.
Classmark: BC MS Gen 11
Date(s): c.1825-1830
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 vol. (174 ff.), manuscript.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/8790
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).
Written in dark brown ink on paper in a single hand.
Biography or history
The anthologiser of the manuscript is unknown.
Provenance
Acquired from Christopher Edward (bookseller), March 2009.
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