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Title
[Poetical miscellany].
Creator
Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678.
Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721.
Watts, Isaac,1674-1748.
Lintot, Bernard.Miscellaneous poems and translations.1712.
Milton, John,1608-1674. Paradise lost.
Pope, Alexander,1688-1744. Rape of the lock.
Date Created and/or Issued
[1709-1712]
Contributing Institution
UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection
Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information
Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description
Scope/Content: Manuscript. Pen trials and a canceled household inventory on front and back endpapers.
Scope/Content: Manuscript poetical miscellany composed around 1709-1712, and containing works by Watts, Marvell, Waller, Milton, and Prior, among others. The text throughout is written in a very neat hand, and nearly every poem is captioned with information about its source. The Tatler and Bernard Lintott's 1712 Miscellaneous poems and translations are cited several times for the text excerpted within this manuscript.
Condition: Bound in full vellum; defective spine and tear to bottom right corner of front cover; housed in modern yellow cloth box.
Type
text
Form/Genre
Commonplace books
Poetical miscellanies
Poems
Extent
140, [4] p., bound ;18 cm.
Identifier
ark:/21198/n1x31h
MS.1948.003
Language
English
eng
Subject
English poetry--18th century.
Place
England
Location
CLUW

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