Select Poems of Edward Hovel Thurlow, Lord Thurlow

Book Description

Chiswick: Printed by C. Whittingham, 1821. [iv], 92pp., 8vo. With the half-title, front free endpaper inscribed “Mrs. Hulse. The gift of Eliza Thurlow. March 10th, 1823.” Original rose boards, morocco spine label; extremities slightly chipped. First edition, with both old and new poems, and including “On the Poem of Mr. Rogers, entitled ‘An Epistle to a Friend,’” which Byron once tried to read out loud but, as Thomas Moore reported, “was unable to get beyond the first two words,” without causing all present to dissolve into fits of laughter. Later Byron sent Moore a parody, parts of which the latter considered unprintable. Moore also had unkind things to say about Thurlow in the Edinburgh Review, but Charles Lamb admired one of Thurlow’s poems enough to copy it into Coleridge’s notebook, and many of the sonnets and other poems in this volume were widely admired. Martin, Privately Printed Books, p. 275.

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