'Ephelia': Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Two, - download pdf or read online

This facsimile version reproduces the extant works of the seventeenth-century poet, 'Ephelia'. by means of culture, the identification of 'Ephelia' has been a long-contested debate in English letters. In her prolonged Introductory word, Maureen Mulvihill culls facts from the 'Ephelia' texts and from modern assets to teach that the main most likely candidate is Mary Villiers, later Stuart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (1622-1685). the amount opens with the replica of A Poem To His Sacred Majesty, at the Plot... (1678) from the reproduction held on the Bodleian Library. it is a huge broadsheet poem triggered by way of The Popish Plot, expressing aid for King Charles II. a brand new addition to the corpus of 'Ephelia's paintings is a variation of this 1678 parent-text, showing a woodcut printer's decoration (factotum, with inset typepiece 'H'), that may carry distinct value. This quantity reproduces the replica preserved on the Huntington Library, and offers with the facsimile an enlarged picture of the decoration. woman Poems on numerous events (1679) deals a wealthy number of fabric: political verse, excerpted fabric from the poet's 'lost' play, love poetry and coterie verse serious of the ethical decline of the Stuart courtroom. The replica of the ebook reproduced here's that preserved on the Folger Shakespeare Library. the ultimate revealed paintings within the quantity is suggestion To His Grace ([1681]) during which 'Ephelia' admonishes the Duke of Monmouth and advocates the purity of the Stuart line and the integrity of the Stuart succession. The reproduction reproduced this is preserved on the Beinecke Library. the amount concludes with 3 appendices: Van Dyck graphics of girl Mary Villiers; a signed manuscript elegy, preserved at Nottingham, with an enlarged picture of its armorial watermark; and the title-page of the poet's woman Poems (1682).