Loose sheets containing fair copies, in a single hand of c.1750, of Fitzgerald's published "Poems on Several Occasions", and his largely unpublished "Odes", "Epigrams", and "Miscellanies", the text of the first seemingly slightly revised from the 1733 edition.
Poems on several occasions, Odes, Epigrams, and Miscellanies, by Thomas Fitzgerald
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 5
- Dates of Creation
- ca.1750
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- pp.[viii], 109, [3]; 43,[1]; 33,[1]; 54,[2] Pages [ii],[vii] and all later unnumbered pages are blank.
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Thomas Fitzgerald (1695?-1752), a now largely forgotten writer, was a schoolmaster clergyman who published editions of Latin texts for the use of his pupils at Westminster School, as well as his own Poems on Several Occasions (1733). He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1717 (M.A., 1721), and was ordained deacon and priest in 1718.
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Acquisition Information
Bought from Bernard Quaritch, November 1960
Note
In English
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Indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/intro.html
Bibliography
See Oliver Pickering, "Thomas Fitzgerald's Criticism of Gulliver's Travels", in Swift: The Enigmatic Dean: Festschrift for Hermann Josef Real, ed. Rudolf Freiburg, Arno Lffler and Wolfgang Zach (Tubingen: Stauffenburg, 1998), pp.213-20.