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A manuscript anthology of early 19th century English poetry, including works by Lord Byron, John Keats and Anna Letitia Barbauld
Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron (1788-1824); Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Keats, John (1795-1821); Clare, John (1793-1864); Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Barbauld, Mrs (Anna Letitia) (1743-1825)
1825-1830
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 E...
Poetical miscellanies : consisting of original poems and translations by the best hands
Jeffrey, George; Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
MDDCXIV [i.e. 1714]
With engraved frontispiece. Case records another edition in this year, with correctly printed date (279b). A pirated edition appeared in 1726, and a second authorized edition in 1727. "Contains an...
Specimens of the early English poets : to which is prefixed an historical sketch of the rise and progress of the English poetry and language (v.1)
Ellis, George (1753-1815)
1803
Continued by Southey in his Specimens of the later English poets, 1807.
Specimens of the early English poets : to which is prefixed an historical sketch of the rise and progress of the English poetry and language (v.2)
Ellis, George (1753-1815)
1803
Continued by Southey in his Specimens of the later English poets, 1807.
Specimens of the early English poets : to which is prefixed an historical sketch of the rise and progress of the English poetry and language (v.3)
Ellis, George (1753-1815)
1803
Continued by Southey in his Specimens of the later English poets, 1807.
Ancient songs and ballads, from the reign of King Henry the Second to the Revolution (v.1)
Ritson, Joseph (1752-1803); Frank, Joseph (1773-)
1829
First published in 1790 under title: Ancient songs, from the time of King Henry the Third, to the Revolution. Edited by the compiler's nephew, Joseph Frank, who has included ballads from Ritson's Se...
Ancient songs and ballads, from the reign of King Henry the Second to the Revolution (v.2)
Ritson, Joseph (1752-1803); Frank, Joseph (1773-)
1829
First published in 1790 under title: Ancient songs, from the time of King Henry the Third, to the Revolution. Edited by the compiler's nephew, Joseph Frank, who has included ballads from Ritson's Se...
Poems on several occasions
Browne, Thomas (1771-1798); Merritt, John
1800
A list of subscribers on p. xiii-xxv.
Poems by Oliver Style
Style, Sir Oliver
c.1670-c.1710
Largely a compilation of poems by Oliver Style, probably autograph, copied 1698-1703, with some items added in a second hand.
Collection of English verse
c.1600-c.1710
Collection of loose sheets almost entirely of English verse, in many different hands, dating from the early 17th to the early 18th century; with a letter, 19 June 1622, from Thomas Gorstelow, and a bi...
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Collection of Restoration satires
c.1666-c.1725
Collection of four unbound late 17th- or early 18th-century Restoration satires
A Devonshire verse miscellany.
1770s
Comprises approximately 75 poems supposedly compiled in the West Country in the 1770s, some with clues to the locality of the scribe. The miscellany includes an unrecorded early poem on the subject of...