Poetical miscellany and commonplace book of the Smith family, compiled ca. 1620-ca. 1665.

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Poetical miscellany and commonplace book of the Smith family, compiled ca. 1620-ca. 1665.

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Part I: chiefly poems arranged as a commonplace book with headings: Epitaphs Laudatory, Epitaphs Merry & Satirical, Love Sonnets, Panegyrics, Satires, Serious Poems (last one labeled but not used); probably by a student at Oxford. Includes poems by Donne, Raleigh, Corbet, Strode, St. Clive, Henry Wotton, an epitaph on Shakespeare by Basse (leaf 3v) and Shakespeare's epitaphs on Sir Thomas and Sir Edward Standly (leaf 8). (In same had as copy in Portland MS see William Shakespeare A textual companion, 457.) Part II: Exercise book of declamations, epistles and verse in English and Latin, many by Thomas Smith and a few by John Smith, ca. 1659-1661.

1 v. ; 19 x 14 cm.

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Smith, Charles, 1663-1717

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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, ...

Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639

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Basse, William, -approximately 1653

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Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889

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English writer and librarian. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : London, to J. Harrison, 1868 July 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270665313 Shakespeare scholar, literary antiquary, and lexicographer. From the description of Correspondence, 1849-1892. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34367915 Shakespeare scholar, literary antiquary, lexicographer, and critic. From the description of Correspondence, with W...

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Smith, Hugh, 1662-1681

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Smith, John, Sir, 1659-1726.

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