Pastorals, Epistles, Odes, and other Original Poems

Book Description

London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1748. With translations from Pindar, Anacreon, and Sappho. [viii], 147pp., 12mo. An attractive copy in contemporary, probably original, blue patterned paste boards, vellum tips, handsomely rebacked by Bernard Middleton in calf with a gilt label. First collected edition, dedicated to the Duke of Newcastle, and the last collection overseen by the author who died the following year. He outlived most of his contemporaries, including Pope, with whom the pastorals in this volume had caused so much trouble in the days of The Guardian, and who had included Philips in The Dunciad, even as others were taunting Philips as “Namby Pamby.” Foxon, English Verse 1701-1750, p. 568; NCBEL II, 562.

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