A gentle echo on woman, attributed to D. Swift

This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 108
  • Dates of Creation
    • ca. 1710-1720
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 1 f. written on both sides, manuscript. Written in a single eighteenth-century hand.

Scope and Content

Comprises a witty English pastoral poem.

Administrative / Biographical History

The attribution of this otherwise unknown poem to 'D. Swift' may indicate D[ean Jonathan] Swift, the poet and satirist. For fuller details of his life and achievements see the Dictionary of National Biography.

Access Information

Access is unrestricted.

Acquisition Information

Purchased from Heath's bookshop on 25 October 1995.

Note

In English.

Other Finding Aids

The poem is indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/bcmvlink.htm#bclt108