Bibliotheca Anglo-poetica; or, a descriptive catalogue of a rare and rich collection of early English poetry: in the possession of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown / Illustrated by occasional extracts and remarks, critical and biographical.

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1815
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Credit: Bibliotheca Anglo-poetica; or, a descriptive catalogue of a rare and rich collection of early English poetry: in the possession of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown / Illustrated by occasional extracts and remarks, critical and biographical. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    King, (many years) Lord Bishop of Chichester &c.” Next follows a prose address to the Reader, in which it is said, “ Not to know the Author of these Poems, were an ignorance beyond Barbarism, lie may be called the prodigie of his Age, for the variety of his Volumes: for from his AevSpoXcytcc, or Parly of trees, to his QrjpoXoyia, or Parly of Beasts, (not inferiour to the other) there hath pass’d the Press above forty of his Works on various subjects ; useful not only to the present times, but to all posterity.” After this is a poem in Latin hexameters, subscribed P. Piscator (P. Fisher) in which the author ingeniously contrives to bring in the names of Howell’s numerous works in strains of eulogy. Some of the poems in this volume occur in Howell’s Familiar Letters,” but with many variations from the present. As the title given by Wood does not agree with the present, having the date i60'3, besides the difference of verbal arrangement, it is probable that the Poems appeared in that year, but had another title sub- stituted in the next. The following lines upon the Poems of the amiable but ill-fated Lovelace, may be taken as a fair specimen of the contents of this volume. Upon ihe Posthumc-Pocms of Mr. Lovelace. The Rose with other fragrant flowers smell best When they are pluck'd, and worn in Hand or Brest; So this fair FI over of Vertu, this rare Bud Of Wit, smells now as fresh as when he stood. And in these Posthume-Puems lets us know That he upon the banks of Helicon did grow. The beuty of his Soul did correspond With his fair outside, if not go beyond. Lovelace the Minion of the Thespian Dames, Apollo's Darling born with Enthean flames, Which in his Numbers wave, and shine so cleer, As sparks refracted from rich Gems appeer Such sparks that with their Atoms may inspire The Reader with a pure Poctik fire. 38A. IIowell (Thomas).—The fable of Ouid treting of Narcissus, traslated out of Latin into Englysli Mytre, with a moral ther vnto, very pleasant to rede. (By Thomas Howell).—Ulacfc UcttClb— Imprynted at London In/ Thomas Ilaclcette, and