And Enlarged
With Hitherto Unprinted And Inedited Poems From MSS.
With Hitherto Unprinted And Inedited Poems From MSS.
John Donne
The authorship of
these is discussed later.
A note on the first page in a modern hand says, 'The pieces
which I have extracted for the "Specimens" are, Page 91, 211,
265. ' What 'Specimens' are referred to I do not know: the
pieces are 'You nimble dreams', signed H. (i. e. John Hoskins);
'Upon his mistresses inconstancy' ('Thou art prettie but
inconstant'); and _Cupid and the Clowne_. The manuscript was
purchased at Bishop Heber's sale in 1836. ]
[Footnote 34: I refer to it occasionally as _TCD_ (_II_),
and (once it has been made plain that this is the collection
referred to throughout) as simply _TCD_. ]
[Footnote 35: Since Mr. Pearsall-Smith transcribed
these poems, which I subsequently collated, the house at
Burley-on-the-Hill has been burned down and the manuscript
volume has perished. ]
[Footnote 36: _The Complete Poems of John Donne, D. D. , Dean
of St. Paul's. For the First Time Fully Collected and Collated
With The Original and Early Editions And MSS.
And Enlarged
With Hitherto Unprinted And Inedited Poems From MSS. &c. . . .
By The Rev. Alexander B. Grosart, &c. The Fuller Worthies'
Library_, 1872-3. Dr. Grosart's favourite manuscript was the
Stephens (_S_). When that failed him he used Addl. MS. 18643
(_A18_), whose relation to the manuscripts in Trinity College,
Dublin and Cambridge (_TCD_, _TCC_) he did not suspect,
though he collated these. Some poems he printed from the
Hazlewood-Kingsburgh MS. or the Farmer-Chetham MS.
these is discussed later.
A note on the first page in a modern hand says, 'The pieces
which I have extracted for the "Specimens" are, Page 91, 211,
265. ' What 'Specimens' are referred to I do not know: the
pieces are 'You nimble dreams', signed H. (i. e. John Hoskins);
'Upon his mistresses inconstancy' ('Thou art prettie but
inconstant'); and _Cupid and the Clowne_. The manuscript was
purchased at Bishop Heber's sale in 1836. ]
[Footnote 34: I refer to it occasionally as _TCD_ (_II_),
and (once it has been made plain that this is the collection
referred to throughout) as simply _TCD_. ]
[Footnote 35: Since Mr. Pearsall-Smith transcribed
these poems, which I subsequently collated, the house at
Burley-on-the-Hill has been burned down and the manuscript
volume has perished. ]
[Footnote 36: _The Complete Poems of John Donne, D. D. , Dean
of St. Paul's. For the First Time Fully Collected and Collated
With The Original and Early Editions And MSS.
And Enlarged
With Hitherto Unprinted And Inedited Poems From MSS. &c. . . .
By The Rev. Alexander B. Grosart, &c. The Fuller Worthies'
Library_, 1872-3. Dr. Grosart's favourite manuscript was the
Stephens (_S_). When that failed him he used Addl. MS. 18643
(_A18_), whose relation to the manuscripts in Trinity College,
Dublin and Cambridge (_TCD_, _TCC_) he did not suspect,
though he collated these. Some poems he printed from the
Hazlewood-Kingsburgh MS. or the Farmer-Chetham MS.
