Pamphilia to Amphilanthus [manuscript], ca. 1615-ca. 1620.

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Pamphilia to Amphilanthus [manuscript], ca. 1615-ca. 1620.

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Consists of 117 autograph poems by Lady Mary Sidney Wroth, with her own corrections and revisions. Six appear nowhere else in Wroth's manuscripts or published works. Nine poems were shortly afterwards interspersed throughout her prose romance, The Countess of Montgomery's Urania, 1621 (STC 26051). Includes the earliest known version of the sonnet and song sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, which was printed at the end of Urania (1621) in a different order and with one substitution.

[2], 65, [2] leaves ; 19 x 14 cm.

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