MJY
's poem, in fast-moving heroic couplets, opens with Genius invoking the aid of Fancy. Fancy insists that the most beautiful and versatile of the muses is Thalia (who presides over comedy). After urging the...
Textual Production
Mary Julia Young
MJY
(as M. J. Young) published Memoirs of Mrs. Crouch
. Including a Retrospect of the Stage, during the Years she Performed, dedicated To the Dramatists and Performers.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
8 (1806): 372
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Mary Julia Young
MJY
has added twelve more poems to the original one: odes (on Constancy and Fancy, the latter a response to Joseph Warton
's Ode to Fancy), songs, sonnets, and occasional poems (To Miss...