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Brotherton Collection6
English Literature3
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse3

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english poetry6
irish poetry (in english)2
verse satire, english1
tories, english1
pastoral poetry, english1
commonplace books1

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Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)6
Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon Earl of (1633?-1685)2
Hammond, Anthony (1668-1738)2
Hills, Henry (1710)2
Hext, Frances1
Concanen, Mr (1701-1749)1

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Miscellaneous poems, original and translated

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Concanen, Mr (1701-1749)

1724

First ed., c.f.: A bibliography of English political miscellanies, 1521-1750 / A.E. Case. Oxford, 1935, p. 248, no. 332. Includes three pieces by Jonathan Swift, c.f.: Teerinck-Scouten, no. 20. Pa...

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BC MS Lt 9, p. 47:
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Poetical miscellany, containing poems by Jonathan Swift and others

1730s

Poetical miscellany written probably in Ireland and including poems by Swift and members of his circle

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BC MS Lt 108, p. 1: Jonathan Swift's poem
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A gentle echo on woman, attributed to D. Swift.

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

c.1710-1720

Comprises a witty English pastoral poem.

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Baucis and Philemon: : a poem on the ever lamented loss of the two yew-trees in the parish of Chilthorne, near the county of Somerset, together with Mrs. Harris's earnest petition

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Hammond, Anthony (1668-1738); Hills, Henry (1710); Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon earl of (1633?-1685)

1709

Freely adapted from the episode of Baucis and Philemon in the eighth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Foxon S801 noting that the Ode is 'actually by Anthony Hammond and reprinted in his A new miscellan...

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Baucis and Philemon: : a poem on the ever lamented loss of the two yew-trees in the parish of Chilthorne, near the county of Somerset, together with Mrs. Harris's earnest petition

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Hammond, Anthony (1668-1738); Hills, Henry (1710); Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon earl of (1633?-1685)

1709

Freely adapted from the episode of Baucis and Philemon in the eighth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Foxon S801 noting that the Ode is 'actually by Anthony Hammond and reprinted in his A new miscellan...

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BC MS Lt 19, f. 1v: An extract from
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A satyr on the political state of Great Britain

1716?

Satirical Whig attack on the Tory conduct of political affairs from ca.1710, and then on their part in inciting rebellion against George I, particularly the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 (described).

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