- Creator:
- Worseley Mr
- Published / Created:
- [1680-1700].
- Call Number:
- Osborn fb70
- Collection Title:
- [Collection of 17th century poems], [1680-1700].
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 4
- Image Count:
- 4
- Abstract:
- Manuscripts, in different hands, of a collection of several dozen primarily satirical and anonymous poems, many scatological. The majority of the poems are political satires, especially concerning the abdication of King James II and the accession of King William III; other targets include Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax; religious zeal; and France. Other poems satirize women, including Barbara Villiers (afterwards Palmer), Countess of Castlemaine and Duchess of Cleveland, with reference to her affair with rope-dancer Jacob Hall; Mrs. Moseley and her link with Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Baron Ashley and 1st Earl of Shaftesbury; and women's conduct generally. The collection also includes a broadside printing of Packington's Pound, as well as numerous satirical songs sung to its tune.
- Description:
- Binding: marbled covers, detached. and See "Early American Literature, vol. XIV, 1979, concerning the attribution of "A Fart" (p. 193).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Court and courtiers, Great Britain--Politics and government--1660-1714, and Great Britain--Social life and customs--17th century
- Subject (Name):
- Cleveland, Barbara Villiers Palmer, Duchess of, 1641-1709, Etherege, George, Sir, 1635?-1691, Hall, Jacob, James II, King of England, 1633-1701. aut, Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683, and William III, King of England, 1650-1702
- Subject (Topic):
- Ballads, English, English poetry--17th century, Political poetry, English, Songs, English, Verse satire, English, and Women--Conduct of life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A New address to Mr. Bayes in his late conversion to the Church of Rome
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- Creator:
- Lockman, John, 1698-1771
- Published / Created:
- 1740
- Call Number:
- Osborn c268
- Image Count:
- 10
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of approximately 105 poems divided into "Miscellaneous Pieces," "Songs," "Cantatas," "Odes," Satirical Pieces," "Mock-Pieces relating to the Stage," and "Imitations." The first "Imitation" is a sonnet concerning an abortion scandal surrounding Mademoiselle de Guerchi in 1660, and is addressed in her voice to her aborted "embrio;" other poem titles include "An Ode, Inscrib'd to his grace the Duke of Buckingham, on his Embarking for France," "The paper Bonnets worn by Ladys," "On seeing lewd Women refus'd Admittance," "Fungus," "The poor & Rich Rogue," "Prologue to a Puppet-Show," and "The Shipwrack'd Sailors." The collection is prefaced by a dedication to Viscount Nessuno in the voice of an "orphan Muse" who writes, "should she beg your Lordship...to favour her with a corner of the Green-house in delightful Groves of Utopia; there to correct at Leisure, the numberless Reams she has scribbled within these twelve years: And should she afterwards implore your Lordship to assist the publication of her labours, by raising a handsom subscription among your friends for that purpose...she is certain your Lordship would not deny her one of them." Many additional poems, in a smaller hand and with numerous corrections, appear in the margins.
- Description:
- Additional poems, in a smaller hand and with numerous corrections, appear in the margins., Binding: full sueded calf., Laid in at the beginning of "Imitations": a piece of paper with an engraving in red ink., and Pasted onto pages at beginning at end: printed poems by Lockman, with handwritten corrections.
- Subject (Name):
- Lockman, John, 1698-1771
- Subject (Topic):
- English drama--18th century, English literature--18th century, English poetry--18th century, Epigrams, Occasional verse, English, and Verse satire, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A miscellany of poems
3.
- Creator:
- Winchilsea, Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of, 1661-1720(?)
- Published / Created:
- [1680-1700].
- Call Number:
- Osborn fb70
- Collection Title:
- [Collection of 17th century poems], [1680-1700].
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Manuscripts, in different hands, of a collection of several dozen primarily satirical and anonymous poems, many scatological. The majority of the poems are political satires, especially concerning the abdication of King James II and the accession of King William III; other targets include Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax; religious zeal; and France. Other poems satirize women, including Barbara Villiers (afterwards Palmer), Countess of Castlemaine and Duchess of Cleveland, with reference to her affair with rope-dancer Jacob Hall; Mrs. Moseley and her link with Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Baron Ashley and 1st Earl of Shaftesbury; and women's conduct generally. The collection also includes a broadside printing of Packington's Pound, as well as numerous satirical songs sung to its tune.
- Description:
- Binding: marbled covers, detached. and See "Early American Literature, vol. XIV, 1979, concerning the attribution of "A Fart" (p. 193).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Court and courtiers, Great Britain--Politics and government--1660-1714, and Great Britain--Social life and customs--17th century
- Subject (Name):
- Cleveland, Barbara Villiers Palmer, Duchess of, 1641-1709, Etherege, George, Sir, 1635?-1691, Hall, Jacob, James II, King of England, 1633-1701. aut, Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683, and William III, King of England, 1650-1702
- Subject (Topic):
- Ballads, English, English poetry--17th century, Political poetry, English, Songs, English, Verse satire, English, and Women--Conduct of life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A sigh
4.
- Creator:
- Hayley, William, 1745-1820
- Published / Created:
- [18--]
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS VOL 352
- Image Count:
- 240
- Abstract:
- Three volumes containing sections of a memoir, holograph. The volumes are numbered 1, 3/4, and 6.
- Description:
- Imperfect: pages 62-66 wanting.
- Subject (Name):
- Cowper, William,--1731-1800 and Hayley, William,--1745-1820
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Anecdotes of the family, life, and writings of William Hayley, the friend and biographer of William Cowper, [18--].
5.
- Creator:
- Hayley, William, 1745-1820
- Published / Created:
- [18--]
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS VOL 352
- Image Count:
- 244
- Abstract:
- Three volumes containing sections of a memoir, holograph. The volumes are numbered 1, 3/4, and 6.
- Subject (Name):
- Cowper, William,--1731-1800 and Hayley, William,--1745-1820
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Anecdotes of the family, life, and writings of William Hayley, the friend and biographer of William Cowper, [18--].
6.
- Creator:
- Hayley, William, 1745-1820
- Published / Created:
- [18--]
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS VOL 352
- Image Count:
- 151
- Abstract:
- Three volumes containing sections of a memoir, holograph. The volumes are numbered 1, 3/4, and 6.
- Description:
- Volume 6 lacks pages 23-26 and 142-168; and pages 22 and 27 in volume 6 are mutilated.
- Subject (Name):
- Cowper, William,--1731-1800 and Hayley, William,--1745-1820
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Anecdotes of the family, life, and writings of William Hayley, the friend and biographer of William Cowper, [18--].
- Creator:
- Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996
- Published / Created:
- [n.d.]
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 613
- Collection Title:
- Joseph Brodsky Papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 53 | Folder 927
- Image Count:
- 1
- Subject (Name):
- Vaughan, Henry, 1621-1695
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--Translations into Russian and Russian poetry --20th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Brodsky's translations of metaphysical poets, typescript, corrected
- Creator:
- Codrington, Robert, d. 1665
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1650]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b87
- Image Count:
- 80
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in an Italic hand, of two elegiac poems titled "Funerall teares and consolations" and "Lachrymae funebres" mourning the death of Winifred Fitzwilliam (d. 1635), and dedicated to her father, Baron William Fitzwilliam of Liffer County, Donegal. Prefaced by a rhyming epitaph.
- Description:
- Binding: full sheep; remnants of gold-tooled decoration. and The paper on p. 44 is dyed black and written upon with silver ink.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, English, English literature--17th century, English poetry--17th century, and Funeral rites and ceremonies
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Funerall teares and consolations, [ca. 1650].
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- Osborn Shelves Poetry Boxes
- Collection Title:
- James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder P.B. I / 23 - 69.
- Image Count:
- 2
- Abstract:
- The collection consists of manuscript copies of several thousand individual English poems, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The majority of the items date from between 1650 and 1800.
- Alternative Title:
- Propertius's Sixth Elegy in His First Book
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry --Early modern, 1500-1700
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts, [ca. 1500-1900].
10.
- Creator:
- Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS VOL 640
- Image Count:
- 2
- Abstract:
- Autograph manuscript of the ballad Johnie Blunt by Robert Burns, undated, written on the verso of an address leaf that had been mailed to Burns at his office in Dumfries. It was bound with two autograph letters, signed, to Henry Sage from Bernard Quaritch regarding the ballad's authenticity and a typescript transcription of one letter with an invoice. The letters are dated 1900 August 3 and September 4 and the transcript and invoice are dated 1900 September 4.
- Description:
- Accompanying letters not digitized., Gift of Cornelia Cogswell Sage, 1955., In binding by Riviere and Son., and Robert Burns, Scottish poet and lyricist. He was born in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland on January 25, 1759 and died in Dumfries, Scotland on July 21, 1796.
- Subject (Name):
- Burns, Robert,--1759-1796, Quaritch, Bernard,--1819-1899, Riviere & Son, and Sage, Henry M.--1868-1933
- Subject (Topic):
- Poets, Scottish--18th century and Scottish poetry--18th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Johnie Blunt