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Collection of poems by William Hamilton Esq. of Bangour.
Hamilton, William
c.1750
Contains 27 eighteenth-century English poems by William Hamilton, preceded by an introductory essay and concluded with an index to all the contents of the manuscript.
Title: Horace Ode 5 Book I, Imitated
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: [Latin]; Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Imitation of Horace's Odes, I.5, on the dangerous inconstancy of feeling, or fickleness, in the female lover of a young man. Cf. BCMSV 6571.
Title: Pallinode
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: [Latin]; Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Palinode written in response to/in continuation of BCMSV 6553, again on the painful unreliability of love; the poet warns the youth of the dangers of falling for Maria, and then reveals that he too once loved her, and ultimately lost her
Title: Horace Book 1 Ode 7, Imitated, to the Earl of S--r
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: [Latin]; Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Imitation of Horace's Odes, I.7, addressed to the Earl of Stair, in which celebrates the Scottish landscape and the Jacobite cause, and renounces certain conventional concerns of British poetry
Title: Horace Book I, Ode 11, Imitated, To Miss Er--ne
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: [Latin]; Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Imitation of Horace's Odes, I.11, addressed to Miss Erskine, and urging her to seize the moment and take appropriate opportunities, and not to dwell too much on an unknowable future
Title: [unknown]
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Fragment of a ballad concerned with love and the beauty of the speaker's (presumed) lover, Margaret; imitated from Horace, Odes, I.32. Begins imperfectly owing to loss of pp. 23-26.
Title: Horace Book 1 Ode 33, Imitated, To a Gentleman in Love
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: [Latin]; Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Imitation of Horace's Odes, I.33, in which the speaker counsels a gentleman in love not to persist in his attempts to court a beautiful woman called Maria, as she is clearly not interested; he goes on to describe more generally Love's
unpredictability, an
Title: [unknown]
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Fragment of a ballad, whose content (because it is incomplete) remains unclear; but is clearly Jacobite in spirit, and makes a series of specific cultural references, as well as satirically describing the quickening effects of alcohol on man;
begins imper
Title: The Episode of Lausus and Mezentius; from the tenth book of Virgils Eneids, Beginning line
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: [Latin]; Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Version of the latter part of Book X of Virgil's Aeneid, describing in detail an epic battle, and concentrating on the contest between Aeneas and Lausus and Mezentius
Title: Love turn'd to Dispair
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Lines on the despair that follows the loss of love
Title: To the Countess of Eglintoun. With A Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Poem lamenting the loss of innocence in rural life, and praising the Countess of Eglintoun for being one of the last exemplars of natural, rural virtue; accompanying the gift of a copy of Allan Ramsay's 'Gentle Shepherd'.
Title: To Mrs D---
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Lines celebrating (but also mourning) the passing of the seasons, and concerned with the mutability of nature