- Published / Created:
- [early 18th century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn c154
- Image Count:
- 35
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of fifteen 18th-century satirical poems, epigrams, and epitaphs. The poems are primarily political and satirize the royal family and the ministry of Sir Robert Walpole, 1st earl of Orford. The volume includes such titles as A song made on the funeral of the Duke of Marlborough; The brothers; Norfolk hours; and General Churchill's address to Venus. Authors represented in the collection include Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield, John Hervey, baron Hervey of Ickworth, and Samuel Westley, while the satiric butts of the poem include King George II; Caroline, queen of George II; Sir Robert Walpole, and John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough. The manuscript also contains a serious epitaph for Henry Saint-John, 1st viscount Bolingbroke.
- Description:
- Binding: panelled speckled calf; gilt decoration.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Court and courtiers, Great Britain--Politics and government--1702-1714, and Great Britain--Politics and government--1714-1760
- Subject (Name):
- Caroline,--Queen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain,--1683-1737, George--II,--King of Great Britain,--1683-1760, Ickworth, John Hervey,--Baron,--1696-1743, Marlborough, John Churchill,--Duke of,--1650-1722, and Walpole, Robert,--Earl of Orford,--1676-1745
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry--18th century, English wit and humor, Epigrams, English, Epitaphs, English, Political poetry, English, and Verse satire, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [early 18th century].
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- Creator:
- Magalotti, Lorenzo, conte, 1637-1712, collector
- Published / Created:
- [late 17th century].
- Call Number:
- Osborn fb66
- Image Count:
- 130
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- A collection of copies of about 36 English poems, in various hands, many of them satirical and bawdy. Political and social satires include Thomas Brown's Melting Downe The Plate, Or The Pisspotts Farewell; John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester's Satire Against Reason and Mankind; and an excerpt from Samuel Butler's Hudibras. The volume also contains several sexually explicit satires against women, as well as numerous serious poems, which include an excerpt from Contention Of Ajax And Ulysses by James Shirley, attributed in the manuscript to the Earl of Orrery; an excerpted description of heaven from Abraham Cowley's Davideis; and John Denham's Cooper's Hill.
- Description:
- Binding: enfolded by a paper cover., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and The piece titled "A Song composed by the Earle of Orrery" is accompanied by a letter signed "Thomas Style" and addressed to "Signor Lorenzo Magallotti."
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Politics and government and Great Britain--Social life and customs--17th century
- Subject (Name):
- Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704, Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680--Hudibras, Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667, Denham, John, Sir, 1615-1669, Donne, John, 1572-1631, Dryden, John, 1631-1700, Magalotti, Lorenzo, conte, 1637-1712, Orrery, Roger Boyle, Earl of, 1621-1679, Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680, and Shirley, James, 1596-1666
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry--17th century, English wit and humor, Political poetry, English, Verse satire, English, and Women--Conduct of life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Poesie Inglesi