John Thelwall [electronic resource] : Selected Poetry and Poetics /
Thompson, J.editor.
Drawing on newly-discovered manuscripts, this collection is the first modern edition of poetry by John Thelwall, the famed radical Romantic and champion of the working class. Eight key essays and 125 fully-annotated poems introduce his work in correspondence with historical traditions and current critical paradigms.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction: "Poets and Poesy I Sing"; "The Dawn and Progress of a Poetic Mind"; "Some Few Minds Congenial"; "Poesy's Lore"; "Drafts on the Muses"; Chapter 2 Poems Pastoral and Peripatetic; On Pastoral Poetry; Comp. Sept. 1820         Pub. Champion 1820, Recreations 1822; Nature's Lesson; Comp. c 1792            Pub. Peripatetic 1793;  Derby MS 1.13S; The Nosegay; Comp. 1786, Rev. c 1805   Pub. Various Subjects 1787;  Derby MS 1. 271; The Rose; The Rose; The Sprig of Hawthorn
The Full-Blown BlossomThe Bud; The Half-Open'd Blossom; The Sprig of Hawthorn; The Full-Blown Blossom; The Bud; The Half-Open'd Blossom; The Woodbine; The Violet; The Cowslip; The Woodbine; The Violet; The Cowslip; The Lily of the Valley; The Lily of the Valley; Hannah's Eye; Written in the neighbourhood of Roslin Castle. April 1804; Comp. 1804   Pub. Champion 1821, Recreations 1822;  Derby MS 1. 261; The Water Lily; Written in the neighborhood of Windermere. June 1804.; Comp. 1804   Pub. Champion 1821, Recreations 1822;  Derby MS 1.267; The Winter's Rose
Fifty-Six and One and Twenty. A Phenomena.Comp. c 1820       Pub. Champion 1821, MM 1825;  Derby MS 3.832; The Wintery Oak; Comp. c 1792;  Rev. c 1805      Pub. Peripatetic, 1793;  Derby MS 1.55; The Woodbine; Dovedale, Oct. 1797.; Comp. 1797                         Pub. Retirement 1801; The Woodbine and the Oak;  An Apologue; From Fifty-Two to sweet Seventeen-who wish'd he were but Thirty-Four24; Comp. 1816           Pub. Liverpool Mercury May 15, 1817, MM 1825;  Derby MS 3.830; Sports of the Zephyrs; Comp. c. 1786, c. 1816  Pub. Various Subjects 1787;  Derby MS 2.719; Song-The Theft
Comp. 1788                         Unpub. Derby MS 1.85The Expiring Zephyr; Written impromptu on the broken Fan of Miss Thornton of Bedford; Comp. July 1803          Pub. Champion 1819, Recreations 1822;  Derby MS 2.467; The Storm without;  an Impromptu; Written in one of the public Rooms at Blackpool; Comp. Sept. 1805          Pub. Champion 1819;  Derby MS 1.23; The Lark; Comp. c 1792                         Pub. Peripatetic 1793; The Dove; Comp. 1789                          Pub. Champion 1819; The Lark; Comp. 1804                            Pub. Vestibule 1810; The Falconer to His Bird
Comp. c 1817              Pub. Recreations 1822 Derby MS 3.878; The Falconer to His Bird on Wing; To Cecil on her requesting me to permit her to visit her sister Boulong35; Comp. July 1822                     Unpub. Derby MS 3.885; The Lowly Roof; Comp. c 1792, Rev. c 1805     Pub. Peripatetic 1793;  Derby MS 1.153; The Neglected Suburb; Comp. c 1792, Rev. c 1805       Pub. Peripatetic 1793;  Derby MS 1.157; Mirfield; Comp. June 1803          Pub. Recreations 1822;  Derby MS 1.297; The Cottage; Written while traveling between Lancaster & Kendal
Comp. 1804                            Pub. Vestibule 1810
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Drawing on newly-discovered manuscripts, this collection is the first modern edition of poetry by John Thelwall, the famed radical Romantic and champion of the working class. Eight key essays and 125 fully-annotated poems introduce his work in correspondence with historical traditions and current critical paradigms.
Thelwall, John, 1764-1834
Thelwall, John, 1764-1834.
Poetry.
British literature.
Literature-History and criticism.
Poetry and Poetics.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary History.