The verse of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
<p>Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, now known chiefly for her letters, was in her own day famous as a minor poet. This thesis discusses her verse in various genres, relating it to the conventions within which it was written and to the writer's particular interests and aims. It prints the text...
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| author | Montagu, M Grundy, I Grundy, Isobel |
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| description | <p>Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, now known chiefly for her letters, was in her own day famous as a minor poet. This thesis discusses her verse in various genres, relating it to the conventions within which it was written and to the writer's particular interests and aims. It prints the text of all known verse by, or probably by, Lady Mary, with full textual apparatus and explanatory notes. As far as possible all manuscript and printed sources have been collated, their variants recorded, the poems dated, their origins explained, and parallels in other writers listed.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:7ff1cb2b-1fb9-4359-a34d-ac0ad40640bb2022-03-26T21:20:08ZThe verse of Lady Mary Wortley MontaguThesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:7ff1cb2b-1fb9-4359-a34d-ac0ad40640bbPoetic worksEnglishPolonsky Theses Digitisation Project1971Montagu, MGrundy, IGrundy, Isobel<p>Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, now known chiefly for her letters, was in her own day famous as a minor poet. This thesis discusses her verse in various genres, relating it to the conventions within which it was written and to the writer's particular interests and aims. It prints the text of all known verse by, or probably by, Lady Mary, with full textual apparatus and explanatory notes. As far as possible all manuscript and printed sources have been collated, their variants recorded, the poems dated, their origins explained, and parallels in other writers listed.</p> |
| spellingShingle | Poetic works Montagu, M Grundy, I Grundy, Isobel The verse of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
| title | The verse of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
| title_full | The verse of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
| title_fullStr | The verse of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
| title_full_unstemmed | The verse of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
| title_short | The verse of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
| title_sort | verse of lady mary wortley montagu |
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