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The Life and Poems of William Cartwright

The Life and Poems of William Cartwright

The Life and Poems of William Cartwright

R. Cullis Goffin
May 2015
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9781107505407
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    Originally published in 1918, this book contains an annotated edition of the poems of William Cartwright (1611–43) as arranged in the order in which they appear in the 1651 edition of his works. Goffin prefaces the collection with an autobiography of Cartwright that sets him in the context of his time. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in English literature and pre-Civil War poetry.

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    May 2015
    Paperback
    9781107505407
    252 pages
    203 × 133 × 14 mm
    0.29kg
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    Table of Contents

    • Introduction
    • Publications containing Cartwight's poems
    • Bibliography
    • Abbreviations etc.
    • The Poems: Panegyric to the Countess of Carlisle
    • The Christ-church building
    • The same
    • On his majesty's recovery from the small pox
    • To the King, on return from Scotland
    • To the Queen, on same occasion
    • The birth of the Duke of York
    • To Dr Duppa
    • To the same
    • The great frost
    • To Lady Elizabeth Powlet
    • To Mr W. B.
    • For a young lord to his mistress
    • Mr Stokes' book of vaulting
    • The dreame
    • Love inconcealable
    • On one weeping
    • A song of dalliance
    • Parchment
    • Falshood
    • Beauty and deniall
    • Women
    • To Cupid
    • A sigh to his absent love
    • A complaint against Cupid
    • Sadness
    • Corinna's tomb
    • To a shipwrackt virgin
    • To a painter's handsome daughter
    • Lesbia on her sparrow
    • The gnat
    • Love teares
    • A bill of fare
    • At a dry dinner
    • The chambermaid's posset
    • On a gentlewoman's silk hood
    • A dream broke
    • Loves darts
    • Parthenia
    • Ariadne deserted
    • No drawing of Valentines
    • To Lydia
    • A valediction
    • To Chloe
    • No platonique love
    • Absence
    • Consideration
    • On the translation of Chaucer's Troilus, etc.
    • A translation of Grotius' Elegy on Arminius
    • Love but one
    • Martial
    • In Pompeios Juvenes
    • Si memini fuerant
    • Horat. carm. IV, 13
    • The birth of the King's fourth child
    • The same
    • To Mrs Duppa
    • The birth of the Princess Anne
    • To the Queen
    • The poems of John Fletcher
    • Another on the same
    • To Brian, Bishop of Chichester
    • A New Year's gift
    • A New Year's gift to Brian, etc.
    • To the Queen
    • The death of Viscount Bayning
    • In memory of Ben Jonson
    • A New Year's gift to a noble lord
    • The birth of the King's sixth child
    • The death of Lord Stafford
    • To Mr Thomas Killigrew
    • The marriage of Lady Mary
    • To Philip, Earl of Pembroke
    • The Lady Newburgh
    • An epitaph on Mr Poultney
    • Mistress Abigail Long
    • To Mistress Ursula Sadleir
    • To Sir Henry Spelman
    • The nativity
    • The circumcision
    • The epiphany
    • The Queen's return
    • The death of Sir B. Grenvill
    • A vertuous young gentlewoman
    • The death of Mistress Ashford
    • November
    • Confession
    • Songs from the plays
    • Notes on the poems.
      Editor
    • R. Cullis Goffin