BIB_ID
219422
Accession number
MA 1581.297
Display Date
England, 1803-1812.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (164 pages), bound ; 20.2 cm
Notes
On p. 7: "Poems by William Wordsworth."
An old description indicates that many of the items were transcribed during April-May 1806 under the direction of Lady Beaumont.
With two pages of printed arithmetic tables.
This item is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall and to other members of the Beaumont family. See collection-level record for more information (MA 1581.1-297).
The Wordsworth poems in this volume include "The leech gatherer"; "To a highland girl," "Glen-Almain," "Stepping westward," "The solitary reaper," "Yarrow unvisited," and "The blind highland boy" from Memorials of a tour in Scotland; an excerpt from Book VIII of The prelude; "To the daisy"; "The happy warrior"; "Fidelity"; "Ode to duty"; "Ode: intimations of immortality"; "Ode to the sons of Burns"; "Travelling"; "The sparrow's nest"; "Elegaic stanzas suggested by a picture of Peele Castle"; "Star Gazers"; "The blind fiddler"; "With ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh"; an excerpt from Book VII of The excursion; "The fairest, brightest hues of either fade"; "Even as a dragon's eye that feels the stress"; "Hail twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour"; and translations by Wordsworth of three poems by Michelangelo and one poem by the German poet Klopstock. Dorothy Wordsworth's poems include "To my niece Dorothy, a sleepless baby," "An address to a child in a high wind," "The mother's return," "There is one cottage in our dale," and "Grasmere: a fragment."
An old description indicates that many of the items were transcribed during April-May 1806 under the direction of Lady Beaumont.
With two pages of printed arithmetic tables.
This item is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall and to other members of the Beaumont family. See collection-level record for more information (MA 1581.1-297).
The Wordsworth poems in this volume include "The leech gatherer"; "To a highland girl," "Glen-Almain," "Stepping westward," "The solitary reaper," "Yarrow unvisited," and "The blind highland boy" from Memorials of a tour in Scotland; an excerpt from Book VIII of The prelude; "To the daisy"; "The happy warrior"; "Fidelity"; "Ode to duty"; "Ode: intimations of immortality"; "Ode to the sons of Burns"; "Travelling"; "The sparrow's nest"; "Elegaic stanzas suggested by a picture of Peele Castle"; "Star Gazers"; "The blind fiddler"; "With ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh"; an excerpt from Book VII of The excursion; "The fairest, brightest hues of either fade"; "Even as a dragon's eye that feels the stress"; "Hail twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour"; and translations by Wordsworth of three poems by Michelangelo and one poem by the German poet Klopstock. Dorothy Wordsworth's poems include "To my niece Dorothy, a sleepless baby," "An address to a child in a high wind," "The mother's return," "There is one cottage in our dale," and "Grasmere: a fragment."
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Copies, in several unidentified hands (one of which may be George Beaumont's), of 28 poems or extracts by William Wordsworth, 5 poems by Dorothy Wordsworth, an extract from William Wordsworth's letter to Lady Beaumont about a poem, and one from the second essay on epitaphs. Also contains miscellaneous items including a fragment of a poem in French by Jacques Delille ("Le coin de feu") and a fragment of a Robert Burns poem.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (22.5 cm)
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