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Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea [Hardback]

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This is the first ever complete critical edition of the writings of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (16611720), including work printed in her lifetime and material left in manuscript form at her death. Textual analysis, based on print and manuscript copies in repositories across the United Kingdom and United States, reveals her revision processes and uses of manuscript and print. Extensive commentary clarifies her techniques, sources, contexts, and diction. A detailed essay traces the history of her works' reception and transmission. The result is a complete view of her achievements that will promote more accurate assessments of her contributions to literary and cultural shifts, including perspectives on literary value, women's equality, religion, and affairs of state. This second volume provides established texts of Finch's later collections in print and manuscript form, Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions (1713) and The Wellesley Manuscript, as well as uncollected poems and letters.

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'One of the many virtues of the splendid new edition - the fullest ever presentation of Finch's oeuvre - is that it displays more clearly than ever before the extraordinary diversity, versatility, and virtuosity of her talents. The edition is beautifully printed, stoutly bound, and the pages are properly sewn in sections. The edition will be an essential purchase for all serious libraries ' David Hopkins, The Review of English Studies 'On page after page, readers of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea will find poems that have been edited carefully, interpreted in ways that encourage future scholarship, and supported by clear and sufficient notes. The creators of this edition have done a great service to the field, and their work deserves to be used, and celebrated, for a long time.' Melissa Schoenberger, ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830

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This second volume of the works of Anne Finch presents previously unpublished poems and letters alongside works in Finch's authorised print volume.
List of Illustrations
xv
Preface and Acknowledgment xvii
Chronology xxv
List of Abbreviations
xli
Note xlvi
General Introduction xlvii
Claudia Thomas Kairoff
Jennifer Keith
From William to Anne xlviii
Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions (1713) liii
From Anne to George lxvi
The Wellesley Manuscript lxx
The Ensuing Years lxxvii
Textual Introduction lxxxi
Jennifer Keith
The Present Edition: Contents and Editorial Procedures lxxxiv
Presentation of the Texts, Explanatory and Textual Notes lxxxvi
Account of the Texts xcv
Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions xcv
Jennifer Keith
An Overview of the Issues Printed xcvi
Copy-Text ciii
Textual Variation in Finch's Authorized Print Volume cv
R. Carter Hailey
Some Terms cv
Title-Page Variants cviii
Canceled Leaves and Stop-Press Corrections cxiii
Errata and Heneage's Corrections cxxii
The Wellesley Manuscript cxxiv
Jennifer Keith
From Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions
1(80)
Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions: The Complete List of Contents
3(3)
The Bookseller to the Reader
6(1)
Mercury and the Elephant. A Prefatory Fable
7(1)
The Prevalence of Custom
8(2)
The Mussulman's Dream of the Vizier and Dervis
10(1)
The Shepherd Piping to the Fishes
11(2)
The Decision of Fortune. A Fable
13(2)
The Brass-Pot, and Stone-Jugg. A Fable
15(2)
Fanscomb Barn. In Imitation of Milton
17(4)
A Description of One of the Pieces of Tapistry at Long-Leat, Made after the Famous Cartons of Raphael; in Which, Elymas the Sorcerer Is Miraculously Struck Blind by St. Paul before Sergius Paulus, the Proconsul of Asia. Inscribed to the Honble Henry Thynne, under the Name of Theanor
21(4)
Part of the Fifth Scene in the Second Act of Athalia, a Tragedy, Written in French by Monsieur Racine
25(2)
The Following Lines Occasion'd by the Marriage of Edward Herbert Esquire, and Mrs. Elizabeth Herbert
27(1)
La Passion Vaincue. Done into English with Liberty
28(1)
The Owl Describing Her Young Ones
28(3)
The Philosopher, the Young Man, and His Statue
31(1)
The Hog, the Sheep, and Goat, Carrying to a Fair
32(1)
The Shepherd and the Calm
33(2)
The Lord and the Bramble
35(2)
The House of Socrates
37(1)
The Young Rat and His Dam, the Cock and the Cat
38(2)
The Executor
40(2)
A Tale of the Miser, and the Poet. Written about the Year 1709
42(3)
Enquiry after Peace. A Fragment
45(1)
On the Death of the Honourable Mr. James Thynne, Younger Son to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Weymouth
46(4)
The Critick and the Writer of Fables
50(2)
An Epistle from a Gentleman to Madam Deshouliers, Returning Money She Had Lent Him at Bassette, upon the First Day of Their Acquaintance. Translated with Liberty from the French
52(2)
To Edward Jenkinson, Esq; a Very Young Gentleman, Who Writ a Poem on Peace
54(1)
To the Painter of an Ill-Drawn Picture of Cleone, the Honorable Mrs. Thynne
55(2)
The Atheist and the Acorn
57(1)
The Tradesman and the Scholar
58(2)
Man's Injustice towards Providence
60(2)
The Eagle, the Sow, and the Cat
62(2)
The Man Bitten by Fleas
64(2)
Reformation
66(1)
Fragment at Tunbridge-Wells
67(1)
The Lyon and the Gnat
68(2)
The Man and His Horse
70(1)
Glass
71(1)
The Dog and His Master
72(1)
The Phoenix. A Song
73(1)
Fragment ("So here confin'd")
73(2)
The Battle between the Rats and the Weazles
75(1)
Democritus and His Neighbours. Imitated from Fontaine
75(3)
A Nocturnal Reverie
78(3)
The Wellesley Manuscript
81(124)
On Lady Cartret Drest Like a Shepherdess at Count Volcra's Ball
83(1)
The Puggs a Dialogue between an Old and Young Dutch Mastiff
84(5)
A Letter from Sr A. F. to Ardelia [ by Sir Andrew Fountaine]
89(1)
The Agreeable in an Answer to the Foregoing Letter by Ardelia
90(2)
To Flavia, by Whose Perswasion, I Undertook the Following Paraphrase
92(1)
To the Right Honble: the Countess of Winchilsea. On Her Obliging Compliance with My Request, to Paraphrase the Last
Chapter in Eclesiastes [ by Catherine Fleming]
93(1)
The Last
Chapter of Eclesiastes Paraphras'd. Inscribed to Mrs: Catherine Fleming
94(6)
To His Excellency the Lord Cartret at Stockholm. Upon Recieving from Him a Picture in Miniature of Charles the Twelth King of Sweden
100(3)
On the Death of the Queen
103(4)
Upon Lady Selena Shirly's Picture Drawn by Mr Dagar
107(1)
To the Right Honourable Frances Countess of Hartford Who Engaged Mr. Eusden to Write upon a Wood Enjoining Him to Mention No Tree but the Aspin and No Flower but the King-cup
108(6)
An Hymn of Thanksgiving after a Dangerous Fit of Sickness. In the Year 1715
114(2)
To the Revd. Mr. Bedford
116(2)
An Epistle to Mrs Catherine Fleming at Coleshill in Warwickshire but Hastily Perform'd and Not Corrected. London October the 18th: 1718 ("'Tis now my dearest")
118(3)
Upon an Impropable Undertaking
121(1)
A Letter to Mrs: Arrabella Marow
122(2)
Advertisement for the Gazette, Flying Post, Weekly Journal &c.
124(4)
[ Sir Plausible]
128(1)
A Letter to the Honble: Lady Worseley at Long-Leat. Lewston August the 10th: 1704
129(1)
A Ballad to Mrs: Catherine Fleming in London from Malshanger Farm in Hampshire ("From me who whileom")
130(4)
After Drawing a Twelf Cake at the Honble: Mrs Thynne's
134(1)
The White Mouses Petition to Lamira the Right Honble: the Lady Ann Tufton Now Countess of Salisbury
135(1)
To the Honble. Mrs. H --- n ("Where is the trust")
136(3)
The Agreeable
139(1)
The Misantrope
139(1)
To the Right Honble: Ann Countess of Winchilsea Occasion'd by Four Verses in the Rape of the Lock [ by Alexander Pope]
140(1)
To Mr Pope in Answer to a Coppy of Verses, Occasion'd by a Little Dispute, upon Four Lines in the Rape of the Lock
141(1)
An Apology for My Fearfull Temper in a Letter in Burlesque upon the Firing of My Chimney at Wye College March 25th: 1702
142(3)
These Verses Were Inserted in a Letter to the Right Honble: the Lady Vicountess Weymouth Written from Lewston the Next Day after My Parting with Her at Long Leat
145(1)
On My Being Charged with Writing a Lampoon at Tunbridge
146(2)
To the Lord March upon the Death of His Sparrow
148(1)
To a Lady Who Having Desired Me to Compose Somthing upon the Foregoing Subject Prevail'd with Me to Speak the Four First Lines Extempore and Wou'd Have Had Me So Proceeded in the Rest Which I Sent to Her at More Leasure, with the Following Verses
149(1)
Under the Picture of Sr George Rooke
150(1)
Under the Picture of Mr John Dryden
150(1)
Under the Picture of Marshall Turenne Taken from His Epitaph Written in French
150(1)
Over the Picture of Major Pownoll
150(1)
Mary Magdalen at Our Saviour's Tomb a Fragment
151(1)
Moderation or the Wolves and the Sheep. A Fable
151(2)
To the Rt. Honble. the Ld Viscount Hatton &c.
153(2)
A Suplication for the Joys of Heaven
155(3)
From St. Austin's Manual English'd by Roger's
Chapter the 3d: The Desire of That Soul Which Hath a Feeling of God
158(2)
The Happynesse of a Departed Soul
160(2)
An Aspiration
162(1)
The Following Poem Is Taken from the Epistle for the Monday before Easter
163(2)
To the Right Honble: the Lord Viscount Hatton by Way of Excuse for My Having Not in Sometime Replied to His Last Copy of Verses in Which He Gives Himself the Name of Corydon Not Approved by Me Who in This Poem Offer at an Imitation of Madame Deshouliers in Her Way of Badinage
165(3)
A Tale ("Over a cheerfull")
168(7)
The Lawrell
175(2)
Occasion'd by the Death of Collonel Baggot, Who Had Been Groom of the Bedchamber to King James, Together with Collonel Finch (Now Earl of Winchilsea) and Captain Lloyd &c.
177(1)
On These Words. --- For as Much as Ye Did It unto the Least of These My Brethren Ye Did It unto Me
178(3)
On These Words Thou Hast Hedg'd in My Way with Thorns
181(7)
A Act of Contrition
188(1)
An Ode Written upon Christmasse Eve in the Year 1714 upon These Words And Again They Said Alleluia. Inscribed to the Rt: Honble. the Lady Catherine Jones
189(5)
Written after a Violent and Dangerous Fitt of Sicknesse in the Year 1715
194(3)
At First Waking
197(1)
A Prayer for Salvation
197(2)
No Grace
199(1)
A Contemplation
200(5)
Additional Poems
205(302)
An Invocation to the Southern Winds Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Winchelsea at His Arrival in London, after Having Been Long Detained on the Coast of Holland
207(4)
The Tunbridge Prodigy ("Protect our State, and let our Marlbro' Thrive")
211(2)
The Prodigy ("Protect the State and let old England thrive")
213(2)
The Nightingale, and the Cuckoo
215(1)
To Mr. Jervais on the Sight of Mrs. Chetwinds Picture
216(1)
An Epilogue to the Tragedy of Jane Shore. To Be Spoken by Mrs. Oldfield the Night before the Poet's Day
217(2)
To Mrs. Arabella Marrow upon the Death of Lady Marrow
219(1)
An Epistle to the Honourable Mrs. Thynne, Persuading Her to Have a Statue Made of Her Youngest Daughter, Now Lady Brooke
219(2)
To the Countess of Hartford on Her Lord's Birth-day
221(2)
The Fall of Cæsar
223(1)
A Fable ("A Man whose house")
223(1)
The Mastif and Curs, a Fable Inscrib'd to Mr. Pope
224(2)
The Toad Undrest
226(2)
Upon a Double Stock-July-Flower, Full Blown in January, and Presented to Me, by the Rt: Honble. the Countesse of Ferrers, from Twittenham
228(3)
To Mr. Pope ("The Muse, of ev'ry heav'nly gift allow'd")
231(1)
A Ballad to Mrs Catherine Fleming at the Lord Digby's at Coles-hill in Warwickshire ("To Cole's-hill seat")
232(3)
To the Right Honourable the Countesse of Hartford ("Of sleeplesse Nights")
235(1)
A Song on the South Sea
236(1)
A Fragment of a Dessign'd Poem upon Pitty, Found in a Loose Paper Written with [ ] Own Hand
237(1)
On a Short Vissit Inscribd to My Lady Worsley
237(2)
To a Fellow Scribbler
239(2)
Explanatory and Textual Notes
241(266)
Correspondence
507(89)
A Reception and Transmission History of Finch's Work: Illustrative Cases from the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries
525(71)
Rachel Bowman
Finch's Reach
525(3)
Discovery and Recovery: Anonymous Printing and Unprinted Poems
528(5)
Changing Tastes and Values
533(16)
Revisions and Rediscoveries in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
549(7)
Claudia Thomas Kairoff
Selected References to and Reprintings of Finch's Works
556(1)
Rachel Bowman
Finch as Playwright
556(3)
Finch: Life and Poems
559(37)
List of Source Copies 596(4)
Selected Bibliography 600(55)
Index of First Lines 655(4)
Index of Titles 659
Jennifer Keith is an Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, where she has taught since 1997. She is the author of Poetry and the Feminine from Behn to Cowper (2005) and numerous essays on poetry from the Restoration to the Romantic era. With the staff of the University Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro she developed The Anne Finch Digital Archive, an open-access site that supplements this edition. Keith and Claudia Thomas Kairoff were awarded a long-term fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Folger Shakespeare Library for work on this edition. Keith also received a three-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant for this critical edition and the digital archive. She is a member of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Claudia Thomas Kairoff is Professor of English at Wake Forest University, where she has taught since 1986. She is the author of Alexander Pope and his Eighteenth-Century Women Readers (1994) and Anna Seward and the End of the Eighteenth Century (2012), and co-editor, with Catherine Ingrassia, of 'More Solid Learning': New Critical Perspectives on Alexander Pope's Dunciad (2000). She has written numerous articles and book chapters on Pope and on women poets. Kairoff and Jennifer Keith were awarded a long-term fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Folger Shakespeare Library for work on this edition. She is a member of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.