基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover is out of print.
Full Description
This edition of some five hundred recently-discovered poems by Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland presents the largest collection of 'new' seventeenth-century poetry since Traherne's poems were published almost a century ago.
Until the rediscovery of these manuscripts, written between 1625 and 1665, Fane was known only as a patron of Robert Herrick, and as the author of a slim volume of poems, Otia Sacra (1648). This important body of manuscript poetry establishes him as a significant early modern poet.
Fane's agonised and changing representation of an England turned upside-down and back again, and of its everyday social as well as political life, is meticulously annotated in this first edition. It uses Fane's surviving account books and letters, as well as a wealth of other contemporary information, to contextualise his poems in a way rarely possible with other early modern writers. The resulting text provides fascinating and revealing insights for cultural and political historians, as well as for all readers of English poetry.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Vita Authoris
The Poems:
Fulbeck MS 1: Poems 1623-1635
Public Record Office, S.P. 16: 437.60
Fulbeck MS 2: Poems 1623-50
MS Westmorland (A) 6.vi.1: Poems 1643-1651
Houghton Library, Harvard: fMS Eng. 645: Poems 1637-1661
Fulbeck MS 3: Poems 1649-1665
MS Westmorland (A) 6.vi.3/26
Appendix 1: A doubtful poem and summary list of English poems by other authors.
Appendix 2: Calendar of Latin, French and Italian poems and prose.
Notes to Poems
Textual Commentary
Index of Titles and First Lines
