Early seventeenth century manuscript poetry [microform] [1600-1625].

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Early seventeenth century manuscript poetry [microform] [1600-1625].

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A volume of poems of the time of James I. Many of the poems are unpublished, and those that are printed vary from this manuscript. They consist of elegies, epigrams, epitaphs, satires, songs, and sonnets. It begins with a letter to Sir Walter Raleigh. There are poems addressed to Sir Phil. Sidney, Lady Rich, Mrs. Bulstrode, the Countess of Huntingdon, the Earl of Pembroke, Lady Bedford, etc. Many poems can be identified as by John Donne. At the end of the pieces are the initials "J.D."

244 leaves.

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Donne, John, 1572-1631

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Proposed for publication as part of the Percy Society series. From the description of The Songs and sonnets of Dr. John Donne : with critical notes by the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge / edited by Barron Field, Esq. : manuscript, [ca. 1840] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612868820 Herbert Grierson attached great importance to the manuscript and presumed the writer to be an acquaintance of Donne. From the description of Poems and paradoxes : manuscript, ...