BIB_ID
193123
Accession number
MA 4367
Creator
Dennis, John, 1657-1734.
Display Date
Place not identified, undated.
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Purchased as the gift of Albert H. Gordon and Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1986.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 22.8 x 18.4 cm
Notes
Dennis addresses his correspondent only as "the Reverend Dr. --".
The letter is not signed.
Docketed "Dennis on Maevius" and "Literary matters 4."
Transcription on file.
The letter is not signed.
Docketed "Dennis on Maevius" and "Literary matters 4."
Transcription on file.
Summary
Denouncing "Two or Three scandalous Anonymus Rhapsodys ... written by Maevius the Scotch Dogrelist," in which he "makes bold with the names of several persons of merit;" declaring "Maevius is as much below a Beast, as a Beast is below a man" and elaborating on this topic; concluding "Thus, sir, have I sent you a short satire upon nothing, upon which a noble poet in King Charles His Time was pleasd to write a Panegyrick. I know you will have the goodness to excuse the Defects of a Trifle which was Intended to give you one moments Diversion."
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