Review of Poetry, Ancient and Modern. A poem. By Lady M******.
London: printed for J. Booth, 1799. First edition. A fine, uncut copy. With the half-title. Stitched, as issued. Quarto. [4], 30 pp. Item #17505
A poem about the merits and benefit of poetry, addressed to the author’s young son. Lady Manners (1766-1852) discusses the work of Homer, Aristophanes, Menander and Catullus, along with that of Dante, Petrarch, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Gray, and others. Lady Manners was the daughter of Francis Grey and came from Lehena, County Cork. In 1790 she married William Manners, late Talmash,
Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 213.
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