Religious poem, ecstatic imagined vision of the bliss of heaven, longing for death to take him there. Addressed in a preceding prose dedication (dated "Brunsfield [Bruntsfield, Edinburgh?] August 5,1718") to Mrs Jean Warrander, and provided on the title page with an epigraph from Isaac Watts's Horae Lyricae.
The transport. An ode. By Mr Mitchel, S.T.S., Anno Dom. 1718
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 59
- Dates of Creation
- 1718
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 1 vol. (8 ff.) Sewn in contemporary marbled-paper wrappers, much of the back wrapper being torn away. Signed Jos Mitchell on f.3r; text, ff.4r-7r; ff.1, 2v, 3v, 7v and 8 are blank.
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Administrative / Biographical History
Joseph Mitchell, 1684-1738, was the son of a Scottish stonemason. Educated in Scotland, he settled in London under the patronage of Sir Robert Walpole. He was the author of dramas, lyrics and occasional verse, but was frequently engaged in disputes with other literary figures of the time, including Cibber and Thomson
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Acquisition Information
Bought from Quaritch (Sotheby), November 1981
Note
In English
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