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Title: Address'd to My Mother
Author: Tunstall, William
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 65
Contents: In praise of the poet's mother
Title: The Protestation Address'd to Miss
Author: Tunstall, William
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 65
Contents: Protestation of love, addressed to the poet's beloved
Title: An Epistolary Song to Miss ... To the Tune of, To all you Ladies now at Land
Author: Tunstall, William
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 65
Contents: Witty song on an amorous theme addressed to a particular woman, the poet's beloved
Title: A Sonnet address'd to Sir James Macdonald
Author: Tunstall, William
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 65
Contents: Introduction to the poetic miscellany, and invocation of the poet's muse, addressed to and flattering Sir James Macdonald
Title: A Sonnet address'd to my father
Author: Tunstall, William
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 65
Contents: Sonnet addressed to the poet's father, praising him and drawing particular attention to his virtues as a parent
Title: An Evening Prayer
Author: Tunstall, William
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 65
Contents: Verse prayer in which the poet asks God for protection from harm, and celebrates nature; cf. BCMSV 6542
Title: On Creeches hanging himself because the person he courted refused to marry
him
Author: Tunstall, William
Attribution: Wm Tunstall
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 7
Contents: On the death by suicide of the poet turned clergyman Thomas Creech, comparing
his fate with that of the classical writer Lucretius whom he had translated
Title: An Epistle to my Sister
Author: Tunstall, William
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 65
Contents: Witty epistolary poem, written by the poet to his sister, presumably named Dorothy, on love and amorous attachment; prefaced by 'Written from Eaton'
Title: Directions to Reynolds for the Picture of Miss
Author: Tunstall, William
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 65
Contents: Directions to Joshua Reynolds, encouraging him to paint the poet's beloved naked rather than clothed, and in a natural style, so as to bring out her full beauty
Miscellany of twenty-four original poems, attributed to William Tunstall.
Tunstall, William
c.1770
Contains 24 English poems relating to contemporary family and state events.