Album containing a collection of manuscript verse that belonged to James Butler, Duke of Ormonde (1610-88). The volume includes English and Latin panegyrics of Ormonde and on his role as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; epigrams and elegies; Royalist polit...
Description:
Some poems docketed by Ormonde; others by his private secretary, Sir George Lane.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Ireland
Subject (Name):
Cobbes, Thomas., Denham, John, Sir, 1615-1669., Dorset, Charles Sackville, Earl of, 1638-1696., Lane, George, Sir., Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688., and Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.
Subject (Topic):
English poetry, Political satire, English, Verse satire, English, Politics and government, and History