Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 18

Title Untitled
Archive Bodleian Library
Call Number Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 18
Complete Yes
Description

Anonymous, ca. 1755–1765; owned by Mrs. Sophia Wallis early nineteenth-century.

Very plain and incomplete.

8 poems.

Format Octavo
Book Size 19.7cm x 12.7cm
Filled Page Count 24 pages
Item Count 8
Poem Count 8
Periods
First Line Index Yes
Digitized No
Region
Additional Genres
Print Sources
Major Themes

Major themes prominent among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.

Minor Themes

Other themes of interest among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.

Links
Bibliography
Citation

Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 18.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/141. Accessed .

Created 2019-09-04 1:13:44 PM
Updated 2023-07-20 2:09:01 PM
First Line Context
Lock'd in the arms of balmy sleep

p. 24.

Local title: A Sacred Lyric. Wrote on being awaken'd in the Night of February 3. 1749–50, by a violent storm of Thunder and Lightening.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Oft I've implor'd the gods in vain

p. 19

Local title: An Ode to Indifference

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Struck with religious awe, and solemn dread

p. 13

Local title: A Soliloquy written in a Country Churchyard.

Attributed author: Revd. Mr. Moore of Cornwall.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

The Goddesses once, as the old Poets tell us

p. 17.

Local title: Verses on receiving a Turkey and Sausages from Mrs. Mattocks, by a young Gentleman in the fifths Form at Westminster School.

Attributed Author: S.C.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: First line "Goddess" instead of "Goddesses." 

Other: n/a

Feature Note
Author attributions

Frequent. 

Binding

Pre-bound paperbook. Some indication of crowding towards the gutter and the edge of the pages; only 24/ 42 pages are filled.

Subsequently rebound (later decorative binding, perhaps commissioned by Mrs. Sophia Wallis).

Hands

Single.

Item formatting

Heavy horizontal line between items.

Very plain and neat manuscript.

Ownership mark

"Mrs. Sophia Wallis of Westbourne, Sussex" written in pencil between the lines of the poem on p. 5 early in the nineteenth-century.

Page layout

Paginated, though only the pages paginated 5–30 (by the compiler) remain.