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- Creator:
- Alston, Tobias, 1620-ca. 1639
- Call Number:
- Osborn b197 1
- Image Count:
- 522
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Autograph manuscript of a collection of about 250 primarily light, satirical, or amatory English poems by various authors. In addition to twelve poems by Robert Herrick, primarily on love, the manuscript also contains poems by Thomas Carew, John Donn...
- Description:
- Tobias Alston (1620-ca. 1639), was the sixth son of William Alston of Sayham Hall, Suffolk, by his second wife, Anne Neuce. Many of the items in the commonplace book may have been transmitted to him by his half-brother Edward, who was a contemporary ...
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Alston, Tobias, 1620-ca. 1639., Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628., Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?, Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649., Donne, John, 1572-1631., Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631., Harington, John, 1589-1654., Herrick, Robert, 1591-1674., Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637., Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Wither, George, 1588-1667., and University of Cambridge
- Subject (Topic):
- Authorship, Bawdy poetry, English poetry, English wit and humor, Epigrams, English, Epitaphs, English, Love, Political satire, English, Songs, English, Verse satire, English, Women, Conduct of life, and Latin poetry
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [ca. 1639].
