| Summary: | Description: In English, on paper: written about 1705. "The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscellanies, in two parts. The first consisting of choice translations and paraphrases selected from the Ancients, done by the best of our modern Poets, the second part consists wholly of originall poems, selected from many of the best of our own Poets . 1705," intended for publication. A complete list of the poems precedes it, but some (on ff1-3) were added in about 1715. Inscribed "John Dunton his book, for which Mr Corbet at the Addison's Head accepted one half guinea in full payment for it ..." (about 1720?). Perhaps therefore Corbet was the compiler of the volume. John Dunton (1659-1733) was a publisher and bookseller. Thomas Corbett (?-1743) was also a publisher and bookseller. Contains 11 poems by Katherine Philips:; ff63v-64 The Virgin (PsK546); f100v Against Love (PsK3); ff101v-102v Friendship (PsK103); ff102v-103v A Friend (PsK95); f140r-v Against Pleasure, set by Dr Coleman (PsK13); ff152v-153 Death (PsK54); ff155v-156 To Mrs Wogan, my honour'd friend, on the Death of her husband (PsK402); ff160v162 The World (PsK569); ff174v-175v Happyness (PsK127); ff184v-185v The Soule (PsK341); ff187-188v On Controversies in Religion (PsK230).
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