Description
Book SynopsisIncludes some five hundred poems by Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland. This title establishes him as a significant early modern poet. It uses Fane's account books and letters, as well as other contemporary information, to contextualise his poems in a way rarely possible with other early modern writers.
Trade ReviewThe volume opens up a fascinating and extensive body of mid-seventeenth century poetry for the first time' Joad Raymond, Literature and HistoryA"
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
Vita Authoris
The Poems:
Fulbeck MS 1: Poems 1623-1635
Public Record Office, S.P. 16: 437.60
Fulbeck MS 2: Poems 1623-50
MS Westmorland (A) 6.vi.1: Poems 1643-1651
Houghton Library, Harvard: fMS Eng. 645: Poems 1637-1661
Fulbeck MS 3: Poems 1649-1665
MS Westmorland (A) 6.vi.3/26
Appendix 1: A doubtful poem and summary list of English poems by other authors.
Appendix 2: Calendar of Latin, French and Italian poems and prose.
Notes to Poems
Textual Commentary
Index of Titles and First Lines
