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Collection of poems, predominantly religious, by Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron, professionally transcribed, with annotations by his uncle, Colonel Charles Fairfax.
Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax Baron (1612-1671)
c.1670
Contains 194 seventeenth-century English poems, mainly Biblical paraphrases, chiefly the Psalms and the Song of Solomon, but also from Exodus, Deuteronomy, Judges, Samuel, Proverbs, and Luke; also, di...
Miscellany of original early eighteenth century English poetry with East Anglian connections, by Robert Worlidge.
Worlidge, Robert
c.1700-1720
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...
Morning thoughts on divine love
17--
Contents: (1) p. ii. To the reader; (2) p. 1. Morning thoughts / Book 1; (3) p. 56. Ditto / Book 2; (4) p. 110. Ditto / Book 3; (5) p. 142. Ditto / Book 4; (6) p. 178. Ditto / Book 5; (7) p. 217. Ditt...
A Christian kalendar, consisting of three starrs and many lights, by Martin Baynes.
Baynes, Martin
c.1615
Comprises a long religious poem expounding Christian doctrine through imaginative use of the stars; preceded by a dedication to Lady Frances Grantham, a prose dedication to Sir Thomas Grantham, and so...
Selections from 'The betraying of Christ', by Samuel Rowlands.
Rowlands, Samuel
c.1625-1634
Also known as:The Betraying of Christ. Selections Comprises selections from Rowlands' work preceded by a dedication written in a different hand by Robert Barnes to 'Lo: Roberts', probably Richard, Ba...
Didactic and religious verse and prose by Joseph Sparrow, written in at the front and back of Elizabeth Joceline's 'The mothers legacy to her unborn child', 1684.
Joceline, Elizabeth
c.1705-1706
Comprises the complete printed 1684 edition of Joceline's work, with 16 English religious poems and other didactic material added before and after its text.
Wilfred Childe Archive
Childe, Wilfred Rowland (1890-1952)
c.1920-1998
Comprises: (1) 34 larger or smaller notebooks of Wilfred Childe's autograph manuscript poems, only partially dated, 1920 onwards; (2) 20 folders holding more of his manuscript poems, some held in copi...
Drafts of Meditations among the tombs, and Reflections on a flower-garden, with miscellaneous other material, by James Hervey.
Hervey, James
c.1740
Comprises what are probably the earliest drafts of Hervey's most famous works, apparently not previously known to their many editors and publishers, containing many corrections, alterations, additions...
Poetical commonplace-place book, mainly compiled by Eliza Marriott.
Marriott, Eliza
c.1740-1804
Contains 28 eighteenth-century English religious, moral, and political poems of various authorship.