[Commonplace book]

Description

Title: [Commonplace book]
Published / Created: [18th century]
Abstract: Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 43 primarily sentimental, melancholy, and religious poems on such subjects as death and divine and human love. Titles of poems include Seraphick love; To melancholy; On death; On the day of judgment; On love; Love undiscovered; Friendship in absence; On beauty; and The vanity of man in the similitude of a bubble. The poems are by various authors, whose identities are indicated only by their initials.
Description: Autograph on front cover: Anne Woolfe. Other pen trials also appear on front cover.
Binding: paper. Written on front cover: A Collection of Poems.
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Extent: 1 v. (52 p.) ; 19 x 16 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: text
Genre: Commonplace books
Poems
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain--Religious life and customs--18th century
Subject (Topic): Death--Poetry
English poetry--18th century
Love poetry, English
Religious poetry, English
Sentimentalism in literature

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Citation: Commonplace Book, 18th Century. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.