Commonplace book, [ca. 1816-1820].

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Bulwer, Augustine Earle Lloyd, 1797-1855. Commonplace book, [ca. 1816-1820].

Commonplace book, [ca. 1816-1820].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702176674

Autograph manuscript collection of original and translated verses on various topics, by Augustine Earle Lloyd Bulwer, later rector of St. Agnes church in Cawston. Contents include: Epitaph of Adonis; Musaeus' Hero and Leander; Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautics; Hymn to Diana; poems on Jerusalem, Spain, Waterloo, and Algiers; other classical and historical verse, some of Bulwer's own composition or imitation, and some of his own verse English translation or paraphrase; Greek and Latin epigrams and excerpts; a few autobiographical, romantic, elegaic, religious, occasional, fairy, and nature poems. Entries dated 1812-1820.

1 v. (166 p.) ; 18 x 12 cm.

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