- Published / Created:
- [18th century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn c258
- Image Count:
- 54
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 43 primarily sentimental, melancholy, and religious poems on such subjects as death and divine and human love. Titles of poems include Seraphick love; To melancholy; On death; On the day of judgment; On love; Love undiscovered; Friendship in absence; On beauty; and The vanity of man in the similitude of a bubble. The poems are by various authors, whose identities are indicated only by their initials.
- Description:
- Autograph on front cover: Anne Woolfe. Other pen trials also appear on front cover., Binding: paper. Written on front cover: A Collection of Poems., and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Religious life and customs--18th century
- Subject (Topic):
- Death--Poetry, English poetry--18th century, Love poetry, English, Religious poetry, English, and Sentimentalism in literature
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book]
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- Creator:
- Heigham, Anne
- Published / Created:
- 1781-ca. 1785
- Call Number:
- Osborn c130
- Image Count:
- 4
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 39 primarily sentimental and occasional poems on such subjects as friendship, death, solitude, nature, and women's beauty, by various authors, including Edward Jerningham, David Garrick, Hannah More, William Hayley, and Hester (Mulso) Chapone. Other poems have been written by Heigham's acquaintances, including several sonnets by Charlotte Smith and an elegy by Mr Hammond. Moreover, the collection contains several theatrical epilogues, including one altered from that written by Richard Sheridan and performed by "Henry Heigham." At the end of the volume, in another hand, is a poem titled On the death of a most indulgent mother by her son.
- Description:
- Autograph inside front cover: Anne Heigham 1781., Binding: contemporary vellum., and Table of contents at beginning of manuscript.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century
- Subject (Name):
- Garrick, David,--1717-1779, Hayley, William,--1745-1821, Heigham, Anne, Jerningham, Edward,--1737-1812, More, Hannah,--1745-1833, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,--1751-1816
- Subject (Topic):
- Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry--18th century, Occasional poetry, English, Sentimentalism in literature, Theater--Great Britain--18th century, and Women authors
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], 1781-ca. 1785.