Soame Jenyns

Author and politician; compiler of two manuscript verse miscellanies.

Full Name	Soame Jenyns
Variant Names
Gender	Male
Birth Date	1704
Death Date	1787
Coteries
Biographical Links	ODNB

Beinecke Osborn c147

Title	Poems on Severall Occasions
Period	1701-1730
Archive	Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Roles: Major author, Primary compiler

British Library Add. MS 70494

Title	Poems on Several Occasions
Period	1701-1730
Archive	British Library

Roles: Primary compiler, Major author

Folger MS M.a.110

Title	Untitled
Period	1731-1760 , 1761-1790
Archive	Folger Shakespeare Library

Role: Major author

Role	First Line
Author	The tuneful throng was ever beauty's care Whilst well-wrote lines our wond'ring eyes command White as her hand fair Julia threw Whilst half asleep my Chloe lies Here lies poor Johnson: reader have a care, A Rap at the Door, when forth from the Chair, Not definite: Finding attributions of the author of this poem is difficult.