Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of about 57 poems on religious subjects in various verse forms. The collection begins and ends with a pattern poem written in the shape of an altar: the first is titled "The Altar" and the last "Sinnes...
Description:
Binding: parchment; gilt decoration.
Subject (Name):
Colman, Henry.
Subject (Topic):
Acrostics., Concrete poetry., English literature--17th century., English poetry--17th century., Religious poetry, English., and Religious poetry, English--17th century.
Manuscript, in a single secretary hand, of a collection of over a hundred poems. Many are serious verses on the subject of death, including An epitaph on Jo. Moon, sometime clark of Modbury, by Jos. King; An epitaph on Mrs. Honour Rich; The Earl of M...
Description:
Binding: full calf.
Subject (Name):
Congreve, William,--1670-1729., Dryden, John,--1631-1700., Prior, Matthew,--1664-1721., and Rochester, John Wilmot,--Earl of,--1647-1680.
Subject (Topic):
Acrostics., Death--Poetry., Elegiac poetry, English., English poetry--18th century., Epitaphs, English., Humorous poetry, English., Verse satire, English., Visual poetry., and Women--Conduct of life.
