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Title: On Creeches hanging himself because the person he courted refused to marry
him
Author: Tunstall, William
Attribution: Wm Tunstall
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 7
Contents: On the death by suicide of the poet turned clergyman Thomas Creech, comparing
his fate with that of the classical writer Lucretius whom he had translated
Miscellany of twenty-four original poems, attributed to William Tunstall.
Tunstall, William
c.1770
Contains 24 English poems relating to contemporary family and state events.
Title: A Sonnet address'd to Sir James Macdonald
Author: Tunstall, William
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 65
Contents: Introduction to the poetic miscellany, and invocation of the poet's muse, addressed to and flattering Sir James Macdonald
Title: Directions to Reynolds for the Picture of Miss
Author: Tunstall, William
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 65
Contents: Directions to Joshua Reynolds, encouraging him to paint the poet's beloved naked rather than clothed, and in a natural style, so as to bring out her full beauty
Title: An Ode to Venus Translated from Sappho
Author: Tunstall, William
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 65
Contents: Ode addressed to Venus (goddess of love), spoken by a woman, beseeching her to make her lover return her affections
Title: A Sonnet address'd to John Stepney Esq.
Author: Tunstall, William
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 65
Contents: Sonnet on the difficulty of achieving happiness
Title: A Sonnet address'd to William Philip Perrin Esq. written when sick
Author: Tunstall, William
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 65
Contents: On the happiness of the author's friendship with William Perrin, his former schoolfriend at Eton
Title: To the Same [Sonnets to William Philip Perrin Esq.]
Author: Tunstall, William
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 65
Contents: On the author's friendship with William Perrin. Cf. BCMSV 6532
Title: An Imitation from Horace. Odes 27th Book, the First
Author: Tunstall, William
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 65
Contents: Imitation of Horace, Odes, I.27; satirical lines on the perils of excessive drinking
Title: On the Birth of the Prince of Wales
Author: Tunstall, William
Date(s): 1762 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 65
Contents: On the birth of the Prince of Wales, probably the future George IV, in 1762, and contemporary political events, including the Seven Years War
Title: The Protestation Address'd to Miss
Author: Tunstall, William
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 65
Contents: Protestation of love, addressed to the poet's beloved
Title: A Sonnet on the Present War
Author: Tunstall, William
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 65
Contents: Glorifying a war being fought by Britain in the mid-eighteenth century, presumably the Seven Years War