Poetical trifles, 1781

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Title: Poetical trifles, 1781
Creator: Burney, Charles, 1757-1817
Abstract: Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of serious and comic poems dated 1778-1780. The manuscript includes two poems based on Oliver Goldsmith's "Hermit," English translations of poems by Bacchylides, an "Epistle to a Lady, with a present of Moor Fowl," an "Elegy on Virtue," a "Sonnet, written in Evelina, and addressed to the Ladies," and numerous occasional verses, such as an "Ode on the death of a favourite bird," an elegy addressed to James Beattie, and an ode to David Garrick
Description: In English.
Laid in: two pages from a poem incomplete at beginning and end, a 3-page poem titled "To Rosetta," and one page containing 3 poems in the same hand.
Binding: quarter morocco.
Provenance: For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Extent: 1 24 x 19 cm. v. (67 p.) ;
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Name): Bacchylides.
Beattie, James, 1735-1803.
Burney, Charles, 1757-1817.
Burney, Fanny, |d 1752-1840. |t Evelina.
Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774.
Subject (Topic): English literature
English poetry
Mock-heroic literature
Occasional verse
Subjects: Bacchylides
Beattie, James, 1735-1803
Burney, Charles, 1757-1817
Burney, Fanny, |d 1752-1840. |t Evelina
Garrick, David, 1717-1779
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
English literature > 18th century
English poetry > 18th century
Mock-heroic literature
Occasional verse

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Citation: Charles Burney, Poetical Trifles. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.