The volume opens with an anti-war poem (as well as reprinting Anna's Complaint and The Temptation) and includes several pieces on deaths: of family members, of a baby, of Edward Lovibond
, of Horace Walpole
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Moody
Following the death this month of Edward Lovibond
, her poetic mentor, EM
lamented him in verse; she had addressed poetry to him during his lifetime.
Lovibond, born in 1723, lived at Hampton in Surrey...
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Moody
EM
's early literary friends included Edward Lovibond
, a Surrey poet who (she says in her verse collection) trained her in poetry, George Hardinge
, a distinguished lawyer and also a writer,
Waters, Mary A. British Women Writers and the Profession of Literary Criticism, 1789-1832. Palgrave Macmillan.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Hardinge
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Texts
Collins, Anthony Lovibond, and Edward Lovibond. “Preface”. Poems on Several Occasions, J. Dodsley, 1785, p. v - x.