Charles Montagu first Earl of Halifax

The full title is Poems on Several Occasions, Together with a Pastoral; the pastoral is entitled The Fond Shepherdess. The title-page says Mrs. S. F., the dedication to Lord Halifax is signed...

It was published the same year, dedicated to Lord Halifax . Like Fatal Friendship, it carried commendatory verses by Lady Piers which situate Trotter as an heir to both Behn and Philips .

A week later (14 October) came SC 's companion-piece, An Epistle to Mrs. Wallup, now in the train of Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales , as it was sent to her at the...

This collection contains the harvest of Thomas's poetic career. Her Muse, she says, is unfashionably incapable of dealing with love or obscenity: this shows clearly that her original poetic context was a Restoration one.

But she moves on from celebration to warning: the human race is fallen, and a ruler needs to guard against ambition (This second Paradise, oh hazard not), faction, and rebellion (imaged as...