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The Westmoreland manuscript of the poems of John Donne

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Title
The Westmoreland manuscript of the poems of John Donne
Names
Donne, John, 1572-1631 (Author)
Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1605 (Approximate)
Library locations
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Shelf locator: Berg Coll (Donne)
Genres
Manuscripts
Poetry
Notes
Citation/reference: Dictionary catalog of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American literature., 1969, v. 1, p. 843.
Content: Ms. label: The Earl of Westmoreland, 1856. Edmund Gosse's autograph and bookplate.
Description
Manuscript collection, in an unknown hand, probably given by Donne to Rowland Woodward. Contains: 5 satires, 13 elegies, epithalamium (18 stances), 20 epistles, 19 holy sonnets, La corona (7 verses), 10 paradoxes (in prose), 20 epigrams.
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL Exhibition ID: TL 17.01.6010
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): b11de2c0-01c7-0135-bd07-3c07547a230f
Rights Statement
The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

Item timeline of events

  • 1572: Creator Born
  • 1605: Created
  • 1631: Creator Died
  • 2017: Digitized
  • 2021: Found by you!
  • 2022

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "The Westmoreland manuscript of the poems of John Donne" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1605. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6568bda0-2f7f-6a81-e040-e00a18064442

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "The Westmoreland manuscript of the poems of John Donne" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 27, 2021. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6568bda0-2f7f-6a81-e040-e00a18064442

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. (1605). The Westmoreland manuscript of the poems of John Donne Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6568bda0-2f7f-6a81-e040-e00a18064442

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The Westmoreland manuscript of the poems of John Donne