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1. Poetical trifles, 1781
- Creator:
- Burney, Charles, 1757-1817
- Call Number:
- Osborn c35
- Image Count:
- 42
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of serious and comic poems dated 1778-1780. The manuscript includes two poems based on Oliver Goldsmith's "Hermit," English translations of poems by Bacchylides, an "Epistle to a Lady, with a present of Moor Fowl," an "Elegy on Virtue," a "Sonnet, written in Evelina, and addressed to the Ladies," and numerous occasional verses, such as an "Ode on the death of a favourite bird," an elegy addressed to James Beattie, and an ode to David Garrick
- Description:
- In English., Laid in: two pages from a poem incomplete at beginning and end, a 3-page poem titled "To Rosetta," and one page containing 3 poems in the same hand., and Binding: quarter morocco.
- Subject (Name):
- Bacchylides., Beattie, James, 1735-1803., Burney, Charles, 1757-1817., Burney, Fanny, |d 1752-1840. |t Evelina., Garrick, David, 1717-1779., and Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, English poetry, Mock-heroic literature, and Occasional verse
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Poetical trifles, 1781