A descriptive bibliography of British and Irish editions of Isaac Watts’s Divine Songs (1715–ca. 1830)

Isaac Watts’s Divine Songs, Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children (1715) represents a pivotal point in the history of children’s literature. This bibliography, a product of the author’s doctoral research, provides a detailed list of British and Irish issues of Divine Songs published between 1715, the year in which the first edition was issued, and ca. 1835. It takes advantage of contemporary research tools to update and revise earlier work by Wilbur Macey Stone (1918) and John Henry Pyle Pafford (1971) and significantly expands their bibliographies. In contrast to Stone’s and Pafford’s work, this bibliography offers more detailed descriptions. It is intended to be used on its own or as a reference list during library work

Lines Written in my Closet : Volume One of Judith Sargent Murray\u27s Poetry Manuscripts

Once holding an esteemed literary reputation as author of The Gleaner (1798), an eclectic collection of prose and poetry serialized and sold by advance subscription, Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820) was virtually forgotten for nearly two centuries. The 1986 discovery of manuscripts believed to have been lost prompted critics to evaluate anew Sargent Murray’s literary accomplishments. Previously unpublished poems and letters mark the prolific author as an important figure in early America’s self-conscious attempt to establish a national literature. This dissertation makes available Volume One of Sargent Murray’s poetry manuscript journals: two hundred and twenty previously unpublished poems and two that were published in The Massachusetts Magazine. The poems in Volume One serve as a representative sampling of the poet’s oeuvre, and the critical introduction and annotations of the first volume provide evidence of her stature as an important figure in early American political activism. She stands out as an early feminist, as a keen observer of social and historical issues (most notably the contest with Great Britain), and as a staunch proponent of the Universalist Church in America

Henry Rootes Jackson

Henry Rootes Jackson-lawyer, soldier, diplomat, poet. Born in 1820 in Athens, Georgia and died on May 23, 1898. Jackson was Colonol of the Irish Jasper Greens during the Mexican War. In 1823, he was appointed U.S. District Attorney for the state of Georgia. President Pierce appointed him Minister to Austria in 1853. A delegate to the Charleston and Baltimore Conventions of 1860. He fought for the Confederate Army during the War of Secession. Afterwards, he returned to Savannah to continue his association in the law firm of Jackson, Lawton & Basinger. Appointed Minister to Mexico by President Cleveland in 1885, he served until 1887. He was president of the Georgia Historical Society from 1875 until his death in 1898. Married first to Cornelia Augusta Davenport then to Florence Barclay King. His book of poems entitled Tallulah and Other Poems, was published in 1850.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sav-bios-lane/1086/thumbnail.jp

Fingalian topographies: Ossian and the Highland Tour 1760-1805

If Ossian validated the Highland landscape for eighteenth-century tourists, the landscape, in turn, seemed to authenticate poems whose authenticity never ceased to be doubted; but text and topography alike ran the risk of dissolving into insubstantiality. Many tourists cited ‘local tradition’ in order to embroider existing (or to invent new) Fingalian place-names. Ranging over a wide variety of eighteenth-century travel-writers, this article casts new light on the relations between Ossian, travel-writing and Highland topography. It concludes by discussing the ‘fieldwork’ tradition of Ossianic tourism after 1800, which sought out local tradition bearers, rather than attempting to authenticate Macpherson's ‘translations’

Citing your References in the MHRA Style

A guide for English Literature, Creative Writing and Drama students on how to use the MHRA referencing styl

James Hogg

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