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[Poems, with a few prose problemes]
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[Poems, with a few prose problemes]
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| Creator: | Donne, John, 1572-1631 |
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[ca. 1620]. |
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Binding: parchment.
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Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of 33 of Donne's poems and several of his other writings. The poems include Catholicism-inflected poems "A Lettanie" and "A Sonnett On the blessed Virgin Marie," as well as "Satira Prima" through "Satira Sexta," selections from his elegies, "The Flea," "Diamond in Glass" ["A Valediction of My Name, in the Window"], and sets of "Canzons," "Canzonettes," and "Airs and Angles." Other writings include several satirical prose "Problemes" such as "Why doe women delight so much in feathers" and "Why doth not gold soyle the fingers" and a copy of a letter by Donne to the Countess of Bedford accompanied by the poem "Obsequies on the Lord Harrington brother to the Countess of Bedford."
Foliation errors throughout.
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1 v. ([x] + [308] p.) ; 10 x 15 cm.
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| Curatorial Area: | Beinecke Library |
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| Object ID: | 16813114 |
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