MSS. poems, by J Montgomery, written about the years 1801-1805, 1868.

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MSS. poems, by J Montgomery, written about the years 1801-1805, 1868.

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Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 19 primarily religious or elegiac poems, three of which appear to be unpublished. Contents include The joy of grief; The common lot, a birthday contemplation; The ocean, annotated with footnotes explaining allusions in the poem to the East and West Indies and to African slave ships; The pillow; Religion: an occasional hymn; and Verses to the memory of the late Joseph Browne. The collection also includes a humorous poem titled Dash, "a true story shewing how a Dog may be a Man, and a Cat an Old Woman," which is annotated with a dedication to the town of Nottingham, signed P. P. and dated Sheffield June 7, 1798.

1 v. (109 p.) ; 21 x 13 cm.

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Montgomery, James, 1771-1854

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The poet James Montgomery was born in Irvine, Ayrshire, on 4 November 1771. He was sent to the Moravian school (the Moravians are a religious community) at Fulneck, near Leeds, and while there began writing poetry. Work followed in a bakery and then in a store, and then to the offices of the Sheffield Register . Facing prosecution, the proprietor and editor of the journal - a reformer - escaped to America, and Montgomery became the working editor and then the owner of the title which ...