Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press.
Isaac Watts
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Standard Name: Watts, Isaac
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | The fifth edition of Horae Lyricae by Isaac Watts
included at the back of the volume Lady Hertford
's Written in a Blank Leaf of Mr. Watt's Poems. Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan. 353 and n6 |
Anthologization | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | Isaac Watts
published Reliquiae Juveniles: Miscellaneous Thoughts in Prose and Verse, including four short poems by Lady Hertford
identified by the pen-name Eusebia (meaning Piety). Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | Lady Hertford wrote that a certain distrust of her own judgement made her slow in the choice of a friend; but when that choice is made, my attachments are too strong to be easily broken... |
Occupation | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | Among writers who received Lady Hertford's patronage were Elizabeth Singer Rowe
, Elizabeth Boyd
, Elizabeth Carter
, Mary Chandler
, Isaac Watts
, Laurence Eusden
(for whom she set topics of occasional poems), James Thomson |
Textual Production | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | Frances Thynne, later Hertford, began letter-writing at an early age. She was eleven when her grandfather
was glad to find her in an hopeful way of being a good scribe, Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan. 7 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | Her favourite topics—religious devotion, social interaction, and landscape description—are frequently linked. She hopes that contemplating the beauties of nature will lead her thoughts to their Creator, or draws moral lessons from particular natural effects, like... |
Textual Production | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | They later reached print in the Miscellaneous Works of Elizabeth Rowe and in a posthumous publication by Watts
. The author's manuscript title is longer: Verses to the Memory of Mrs. Rowe who dy'd of... |
Literary responses | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | Isaac Watts
wrote a poem in praise of this elegy, in whch he presents Hertford as Rowe's heir. Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press. 208 |
Textual Production | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | Frances Hertford and Elizabeth Singer Rowe
had each urged the other to publish her work. After Rowe's death Hertford joined with Isaac Watts
in posthumous editing of Rowe for print. |
Reception | Emily Dickinson | Because of the extent to which ED
's concentrated and elusive verse, as well as her dissent from religious and social orthodoxies, seem to presage modernism, she has been considered the sole serious writer among... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria De Fleury | She heads her work with the quotation What think ye of Christ? (a question which St Matthew's Gospel reports Jesus as asking the Pharisees, arguably as a kind of trick), and adds, admiringly, others from... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Collier | Isaac Watts
, in a discourse on religious humility, had argued that it was necessary for him to talk about otherwise unacceptably low and trivial happenings in order to make visible the horrors of domestic... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Bury | This printed version of EB
's diary was Abbreviated and Reduced under some Proper Heads. Chronological order operates within each topic-section but not overall. Bury, Elizabeth. An Account of the Life and Death of Mrs Elizabeth Bury. Editor Bury, Samuel, Printed by and for J. Penn and sold by J. Sprint. 53 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Bury | The full title of the publication, beginning An Account of the Life and Death of Mrs Elizabeth Bury, who died, May the 11th, 1720. Aged 76. Chiefly collected out of her own diary, goes... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Bury | Here she concludes by quoting, unascribed, eight lines of poetry by Congreve
beginning When Lesbia first I saw, so heavenly Fair. Bury, Elizabeth. An Account of the Life and Death of Mrs Elizabeth Bury. Editor Bury, Samuel, Printed by and for J. Penn and sold by J. Sprint. 189 |
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