Theme: Satire - religious
Ridicule of religious denominations, individual religious leaders, and events in the religious sphere.
Beinecke Osborn c110
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Bishop Worth, ca. 1730s.
11 Latin poems, 13 English poems.
Betty Careless and Dryden-themed poems.
Beinecke Osborn fc185
Title | Gleanings in prose and verse, selected by Jo [...] |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Joseph Taylor, 1799.
About 389 pieces of verse and prose.
Satirical as well as sentimental and elegiac perspectives on the subjects of love, women, religion, and death. Also contains numerous humorous epigrams and epitaphs.
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. c. 9
Title | Miscellanies |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Thomas Phillibrown, 1740–1757.
Divided into sections according to odd and even numbered pages.
152 poems.
Very London oriented (Public affairs, local interest, celebrities).
Reflects a mid-century coterie centering around John Hawkins and Moses Browne.
Clark MS 1950.025
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Ann Countess of Strafford, ca. 1715–1730.
172 pages.
Primarily political satire, some acrostics of Ann's name; Jacobite-related material.
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 556
Title | A Miscellaneous Collection of Papers in Pros [...] |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
Anonymous Scottish anti-Unionist, 1708.
116 items, 100 poems.
Contents focused on issues around the ascension of Queen Anne and the Act of Union, as well as religious disputes between Episcopal and Presbyterian positions.
The position of this manuscript is Jacobite, Episcopalian, and anti-Unionist.
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 558
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
Anonymous, ca. 1740.
488 items.
Religious poetry including some poems on religious turncoats.
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 639
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
Richard Porson, ca. 1780.
Includes a second section of bound-in separates with its own Table of Contents.
75 poems in the first section + 52 in the second.
Jacobite- and Cambridge-related material.
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 39
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1783.
102 poems.
Moralizing book with some lighter poems; many items sourced from "L—'s Miscellany," and many items from the 1760s.
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 40
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | Bodleian Library |
Gabriel Lepipre, ca. 1750.
246 poems.
Good example of miscellany as autobiography; also includes lots of epitaphs.
Clark MS 1948.003
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1709–1712.
57 items.
Very author oriented, with source attributions.
Clark MS 1982.001
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 , 1731-1760 |
Archive | Clark Library |
E.L.T. Bale, ca. 1730–1740 (possibly begun as early as 1710s though).
This entry concerns the poetry end of the manuscript only.
48 poems.
Poems from popular periodicals, a few Latin poems, and a series of Horatian odes versified in English.
Clark MS 1993.001
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 , 1731-1760 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Francis Hawes, 1720–1760.
An ambigraph volume with poetry on both ends. This entry is concerned with the two ends of the volume only, not the middle (recipe) section which is in another hand.
165 poems.
Political satire poems in the style of early eighteenth-century; satire of court manners and prominent women. Many poems that mention Bath.
Clark MS 2019.032
Title | Miscellaneous Articles, in Poetry and Prose |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Clark Library |
Anonymous Irish officer, ca. 1810–1830.
28 poems.
Many local interest pieces and political satire.
Folger MS M.a.182
Title | A miscellaneous collection in prose and vers [...] |
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Period | 1791-1820 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
A.T.W, 1793–ca. 1800.
A lot of retrospective editing including comments and cross-outs.
153 poems.
Many poems by or about important figures of literature and the stage; also epitaphs, inscriptions and letters; many poems by women.
Folger MS M.a.185
Title | Miscellanies in Prose and Verse Vol: 1 |
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Period | 1731-1760 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Folger MS M.a.187
Title | A Collection of Poetry |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anonymous (probably from Scotland), 1737–ca. 1740.
415 poems
Many religious/devotional poems.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 100
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1761-1790 , 1791-1820 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1775–1810.
130 items.
Pieces from Garrick's memoir and other prose with a record of Wyvill-G—ll coterie's poetic exchanges in the middle.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 106
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1745–1780.
An example of a collection that includes print paste-ins, perhaps added at a a later date onto the blank pages.
90 items, 48 poems.
Post-1745 Jacobite-related material.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 45
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1731-1760 , 1761-1790 |
Archive | Brotherton Library |
Anonymous, ca. 1743–1767.
280 items.
Subject matter mainly religious, contemplations of death; some are not squarely religious, praising virtue, friendship, science, etc.; some Jacobite-related material.
Princeton Taylor no. 87
Title | Poems and Songs upon Several Occasions. |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | Princeton University Library Special Collections |
Joshua Peart, 1726.
256 poems.
A large eclectic book with a special concentration of pastoral poems and songs, political satire and other poems about politicians, and humorous poems; also contains multiple poems about alcohol and tobacco.
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 553
Title | Untitled |
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Period | 1701-1730 |
Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
Anonymous, 1715–1717.
318 poems.
Diverse collection of poems, with a significant number of poems satirising women and marriage; also interested in the classics, public affairs, literature, Oxford, theatre, and religious satire.