Poetical miscellany [manuscript], ca. 1775.

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Poetical miscellany [manuscript], ca. 1775.

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M.a.165 contains mainly extracts from Pope, including the whole of "The Rape of the Lock," but also some other extracts. Bound in are two printed books, De-La-Cour's A prospect on poetry, 1734, and Pope's An essay on criticism, 1709, cataloged separately. M.a.166 contains, as its binder's title states, a number of pieces by John Pomfret, also many by other persons, mostly not identified, but including some by Pope. The date is wholly conjectural; the extracts are almost entirely from 18th century works, the latest being Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands, first published in 1775.

2 v. ; 23 x 18 cm.

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