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32.
- Creator:
- Donne, John, 1572-1631
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1620].
- Call Number:
- Osborn b114
- Image Count:
- 322
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Foliation errors throughout. and Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of 33 of Donne's poems and several of his other writings. The poems include Catholicism-inflected poems "A Lettanie" and "A Sonnett On the blessed Virgin Marie," as well as "Satira Prima" through "Satira Sexta," selections from his elegies, "The Flea," "Diamond in Glass" ["A Valediction of My Name, in the Window"], and sets of "Canzons," "Canzonettes," and "Airs and Angles." Other writings include several satirical prose "Problemes" such as "Why doe women delight so much in feathers" and "Why doth not gold soyle the fingers" and a copy of a letter by Donne to the Countess of Bedford accompanied by the poem "Obsequies on the Lord Harrington brother to the Countess of Bedford."
- Description:
- Binding: parchment. and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--England
- Subject (Topic):
- Elegiac poetry., English literature--17th century, English poetry--17th century, Metaphysics--Poetry, Religious poetry, and Verse satire, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Poems, with a few prose problemes]
33.
- Creator:
- Wharton, Anne, 1632?-1685
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1700?]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b408
- Image Count:
- 6
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single bookhand, of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller. Texts include ""The Lamentations of Jeremiah"" and other Biblical paraphrases, as well as paraphrases of poems by Ovid, Virgil and Boileau; ""To Melpome
- Description:
- Several pages following the poem texts are headed with poem titles but are otherwise blank.
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry --17th century, English poetry--17th century, Occasional verse, English, Religious poetry, English--17th century, and Women authors.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Poems]
34.
- Creator:
- Cavendish, Jane, Lady
- Published / Created:
- [mid 17th century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b233
- Image Count:
- 32
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of 78 poems by Jane Cavendish. Many are addressed to family members, including one titled "On my sweete brother Charles," another called "On my Noble Uncle Sr Charles Cavendish Knight," and several to her father, as well as others addressed to her sisters, mother, grandparents, and the King and Queen. There are also poems on passion, the "chamber-mayde," and "A noble lady." The manuscript includes a poetic dialogue by her sister, Lady Elizabeth Brackley Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater, titled "A Pastorall," with a cast of witches, country wives, and shepherds, and which is preceded by a verse dedication to their father, William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle. The manuscript as a whole is prefaced by a dedication by Jane Cavendish to him.
- Description:
- Binding: full black morocco; gilt decoration.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England--Social life and customs--17th century
- Subject (Name):
- Cavendish family, Cheiney, Jane Cavendish, Lady, Egerton, Elizabeth Cavendish, 1626-1663, and Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature--17th century, English poetry--17th century, English poetry--Women authors, and Nobility--Great Britain
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Poems], [mid 17th century]
