Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of twelve sonnets addressed to the author's beloved, and address such topics as the beloved's figure, eyes, the book of love, and time spent away from the beloved. Throughout, love is figured as nature, and the writer imagines himself in various scenes of nature as he describes his love. Most of the sonnets are dated. The volume also contains two detailed pen drawings, one illustrating a house and its environs; and another of a figure of a grim reaper in a garden being watched by a young boy.
Description:
Binding: patterned paper. Pasted on cover: Sonnets. August --- October, --- 1870.---- By Walter Crane., Blind-embossed on title page: Ivory., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Title from title page., and Walter Crane (August 15, 1845-March 14, 1915), son of Thomas Crane (1808-1859), a portrait painter, was an English artist and book illustrator. Considered one of the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif in the genre of 19th century English children's illustrated literature, his work featured child-in-the-garden motifs.
Subject (Name):
Crane, Walter,--1845-1915
Subject (Topic):
English poetry,--19th century, Love--Poetry, Nature--Poetry, Pen drawing, and Sonnets, English
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 Donne, Ben Jonson, Sir John Harington, Michael Drayton, George Wither, and others, as well as 17 poems in Latin. Other items include several pieces relating to Cambridge University and Suffolk, as well as numerous bawdy poems, drinking songs, political and religious verse satires, epigrams, and epitaphs both humorous and serious. Titles of these poems include An epitaph on Luce Morgan; Upon the Parliament 1624; A Puritan and A Papist; and several poems on Prince Charles' and the Duke of Buckingham's journey to Spain in 1623. Also in the manuscript is a copy of the love poem titled ""Shall I die?,"" attributed to Shakespeare in a Bodleian manuscript. At the end of the manuscript are notes and verses in later hands.
Description:
Disbound and separated into 21 folders., Marbled endpapers. Binding: full calf; blind-tooled cover., and Written on flyleaf: "Tobias Alston his booke," several times, as well as other names, including "Henricus Glisson" and "Harris Norton." In a later hand, "E L John Whitehead."
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, University of Cambridge--Poetry, and Wither, George, 1588-1667
Subject (Topic):
Bawdy poetry--England, English poetry--17th century, English wit and humor, Epigrams, English, Epitaphs, English, Latin poetry, Love--Poetry, Political satire, English--17th century, Songs, English--17th century, Verse satire, English, and Women--Conduct of life
