An essay on the evidence, external and internal, relating to the poems attributed to Thomas Rowley. Containing a general view of the whole controversy. By Thomas James Mathias
Publisher: Printed for Thomas Becket … Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and Their Royal Highnesses the Princes
Published: 1783
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><b>Bound with:</b> </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15.3333px;">Edward Burnaby Greene, Strictures Upon a pamphlet intitled, Cursory observations on the poems attributed to Rowley, A Priest of the Fifteenth Century. With a Postscript on Mr. Thomas Warton's Enquiry into the same subject (</span><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">London : Printed for J[ohn] Stockdale</span></font><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15.3333px;">, 1782, </span><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">pp. 84, [4], f. [1] (blank)</span></font><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15.3333px;">; see Bib# 4103387/Fr# 441 in this collection).</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15.3333px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 
8vo. f. [1] (blank), pp. viii, 118, [6]. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-H⁸ I⁴ K1. Half morocco. Gilded spine on 5 bars, marbled boards, edges spread in red. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">In 1782, spurred by Milles’s imposing fourth edition of the “Rowley” poems forged by Thomas Chatterton (see Bib# 4103366/Fr# 418 in this collection), and Jacob Bryant’s Observations upon the Poems of Thomas Rowley, in which the Authenticity of those Poems is Ascertained (1781, see Bib# 712041/Fr# 434), the scholarly and pseudo-scholarly world saw either the need for a negative consensus on the “Rowley” poems, or the opportunity for further mischief. </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15.3333px;">Edward Burnaby Greene, bound in, obstinately espoused the Rowleian cause in the present work. (See also ESTC, T48750, which erroneously omits a poem </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15.3333px;">addressed to Bishop Percy in mock-Chaucerian English on p. [87]).</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15.3333px;"> </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">In the present work, Thomas Mathias gives the inevitable ‘overview’ of the various publications upon the subject of Rowley's poems, for and against their authenticity. See also ESTC, T33365. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991000341939707861" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record of Mathias</a>; <a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039125049707861" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record of Greene.</a></p>