Poems and Songs

Book Description

London: Printed for Benjamin Tooke, 1682. [xxxviii], 141, [1]pp., 8vo. Title slightly soiled and a little minor staining at end, but an excellent copy in early twentieth century half blue morocco gilt. Second edition, “with Additions and Amendments,” including three new poems, and new commendatory verses by Nahum Tate. Flatman did much to popularize the pindaric in England, and his verses displayed, as James Sutherland has written, an “unusually sensitive ear for rhythm, and...an ability to control elaborate rhythmical movements.” There are also songs, praise of such friends as the artist William Faithorne and the poet Katharine Phillips, and songs such as “Love’s Bravo,” “The Desperate Lover,” and “The Expectation.” Wing F1152; Grolier, Wither to Prior 357. ESTC on-line is mistaken in calling for the portrait in this edition; it first appeared in the third of 1682.

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