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1. Poems, [ca. 1779].
- Creator:
- Burney, Charles, 1757-1817
- Call Number:
- Osborn c37
- Image Count:
- 38
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of poems, including numerous occasional verses addressed to friends, family members, and their children. Titles include "Ode to the Ship, in which Mr. F J. H. Wollaston sails," "A Lilliputian Ode, on my little Friend, Richard Burney, putting on Breeches," "Buxom Het, an excellent new song to an old Tune: a Soldier & a Sailor, a Tinker & a Tailor, etc., made on Mrs. Esther Burney," and "Occasional Prologue to the Good Natured Man, a Comedy; when acted by Ladies and Gentlemen for their diversion."
- Description:
- Incomplete index in back of manuscript., Laid in: poem, in same hand, titled "To my little friend Charles Wollaston, on his being put into Breeches.", and Binding: boards, vellum spine.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Burney, Charles, 1757-1817., Burney family., Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774., and Wollaston, Francis John Hyde, 1762-1823.
- Subject (Topic):
- Children, Drama, English literature, English poetry, Occasional verse, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Poems, [ca. 1779].
2. 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