Research Catalog

Title

The Anne Finch Wellesley manuscript poems / edited by Barbara McGovern and Charles H. Hinnant.

Author

Winchilsea, Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of, 1661-1720.

Publication

Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McGovern, Barbara.
• Hinnant, Charles H.
• Wellesley College Library.

Description

l, 205 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Winchilsea, Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of, 1661-1720 > Manuscripts
• Manuscripts, English > Massachusetts > Wellesley

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-194) and indexes.

Contents

• On Lady Cartret drest like a shepherdess at Count Volira's ball -- The puggs: a dialogue between an old and young dutch Mastiff -- A Letter from Sr. A. F. to Ardelia -- The agreeable: In an answer to the foregoing letter, by Ardelia -- To Flavia, By whose perswasion, I undertook the following Paraphrase -- To the Right Hon. the Countess of Winchilsea On her obliging compliance with my request, to paraphrase the last Chapter in Eclesiastes [by Catherine Fleming] -- The last chapter of Eclesiastes Paraphras'd: Inscribed to Mrs. Catherine Fleming -- To His Excellency the Lord Cartret at Stockholm Upon recieving from him a picture in miniature of Charles the twelth King of Sweden -- On the Death of the Queen -- Upon Lady Selena Shirly's picture drawn by Mr. Dagar -- To the Right Honourable Frances Countess of Hartford who engaged Mr. Eusden to write upon a wood enjoining him to mention no tree but the Aspin and no flower but the King-cup --
• An Hymn of Thanksgiving after a Dangerous fit of sickness in the year 1715 -- To the Rev. Mr. Bedford -- An Epistle to Mrs. Catherine Fleming at Coleshill in Warwickshire but hastily performed and not corrected. London October the 18th: 1718 -- Upon an improbable undertaking -- A letter to Mrs. Arrabella Marow -- Advertisement for the Gazette, Flying post, Weekly journal &c. -- Sir Plausible -- A Letter to the Hon. Lady Worseley at Long-Leat Lewston August the 10th 1704 -- A Ballad to Mrs. Catherine Fleming in London from Malshanger farm in Hampshire -- After drawing a twelf cake at the Hon. Mrs. Thynne's -- The white mouse's petition to Lamira the Right Hon. the Lady Ann Tufton now Countess of Salisbury -- To the Hon. Mrs. H - n -- The agreeable -- The misantrope -- To the Right Hon. ANN Countess of WINCHILSEA: occasion'd by four verses in the rape of the Lock [by Alexander Pope] --
• To Mr. Pope In answer to a coppy of verses occasion'd by a little dispute upon four lines in the Rape of the Lock -- An Apology for my fearfull temper in a letter in Burlesque upon the firing of my chimney At Wye College March 25 1702 -- These verses were inserted in a letter to the Right Hon. The Lady Vicountess Weymouth written from Lewston the next day after my parting with her at Long Leat -- On my being charged with writing a lampoon at Tunbridge -- To the Lord March upon the death of his sparrow -- To a Lady who having desired me to compose somthing upon the foregoing Subject prevail'd with me to speak the four first lines extempore and wou'd have had me so proceed in the rest which I sent to her at more leasure, with the following verses -- Under the picture of Sr. George Rooke -- Under the picture of Mr. John Dryden -- Under the picture of Marshall Turenne taken from his epitaph written in French -- Over the Picture of Major Pownoll -- Mary Magdalen at our Saviour's Tomb: A Fragment --
• Moderation or the Wolves and the sheep. A Fable -- To the Rt. Hon ye Ld Viscount Hatton &c. [This is again transcribed later in the manuscript "from a Correcter Copy."] -- A Suplication for the joys of Heaven -- From St. Austin's manual english'd by Roger's Chapter y[superscript c] 3[superscript d]: The desire of that Soul which hath a feeling of God -- The happynesse of a departed Soul -- An Aspiration -- The following poem is taken from the Epistle for the monday before Easter -- To the Right Hon: the Lord Viscount Hatton by way of excuse for my having not in sometime replied to his last copy of verses in which he gives himself the name of Corydon not approved by me who in this Poem offer at an imitation of Madame Deshouliers in her way of Badinage -- A Tale -- The Lawrell -- Occasion'd By the Death of Collonel Baggot, who had been Groom of the Bedchamber to King James, together with Collonel Finch (now Earl of Winchilsea) and Captain Lloyd &c- --
• On these Words. - for as much as ye did it unto the least of these my Brethren ye did it unto me -- On these Words: Thou hast hedg'd in my way with thorns -- A Act of Contrition -- An Ode Written upon Christmasse Eve in the year 1714 Upon these Words: And again they Said Alleluia Inscribed To the Rt. Honble the Lady Catherine Jones -- Written after a violent and dangerous fitt of sicknesse in the Year 1715 -- At first Waking -- A Prayer for Salvation -- No Grace -- A Contemplation.

ISBN

0820319953 (alk. paper)

LCCN

98009897

OCLC

ocm38239318

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries