Boston prize poems [microform] : and other specimens of dramatic poetry.
Paine, Robert Treat,1773-1811.
Sprague, Charles,1791-1875.
Wells, Thomas.
Johnson, Samuel,1709-1784.
Garrick, David,1717-1779.
Byron, George Gordon Byron,Baron,1788-1824.
Pope, Alexander,1688-1744.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,1751-1816.
Scott, Walter,1771-1832.
Boston [Mass.] : J.T. Buckingham,
1824
Poems submitted in 1823 for a prize offered by the manager of the Boston Theatre requesting an ode in honor of Shakespeare. Includes the prize-winning contribution by Charles Sprague and similar "prize poems" written by Boston authors for various openings of dramatic theaters in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and New Orleans, along with a selection of related dramatic prologues and odes by eighteenth and nineteenth century British writers.
Sabin 6502
Prize ode / Charles Sprague -- Metrical pieces [unsuccessful entries] -- Prize poems -- Prologues, odes &c., English.
Microfiche.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Garrick, David, 1717-1779
Boston Theatre (Federal Street, Boston, Mass.)
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England)
American poetry.
English poetry
Theaters
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