Description
Book SynopsisPresenting uncollected poems and letters, some of which are unpublished, this second volume in the first complete, critical edition of the works of Anne Finch, Countess of Wilchelsea, provides established texts of her later collections in print and manuscript form, Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions (1713) and The Wellesley Manuscript.
Trade Review'One of the many virtues of the splendid new edition - the fullest ever presentation of Finch's oeuvre - is that it displays more clearly than ever before the extraordinary diversity, versatility, and virtuosity of her talents. The edition is beautifully printed, stoutly bound, and the pages are properly sewn in sections. The edition will be an essential purchase for all serious libraries …' David Hopkins, The Review of English Studies
Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface and acknowledgments; Chronology; Abbreviations; Note; General introduction Claudia Thomas Kairoff and Jennifer Keith; Textual introduction Jennifer Keith; Account of the texts Jennifer Keith and R. Carter Hailey; From Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions; The Wellesley Manuscript; Additional poems; Explanatory and textual notes; Correspondence; A reception and transmission history of Finch's work: illustrative cases from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries Rachel Bowman; List of source copies; Select bibliography; Index of titles; Index of first lines.
