Carwithen william (1 Ergebnisse)

8vo, pp. viii, 148; with a preliminary list of subscribers on pp. iii-viii; a fine copy with the lower and outer edges uncut, top edge gilt; in modern boards. First edition: a poem on the passions of youth, ambitions of middle age and the laments of old age. Each age is seen through the metaphor of a season, with the poem outwardly resembling Thomson's Seasons. The Viscount can't his present title brook. Pines for an Earldom, or the stile of Duke. The needy Curate's well-form'd plans presage, Some good fat rectory or vicarage. (p. 97) William Carwithen (1751/2-1824) was the son of the rector of Manaton, Devon, and came up to Oxford in 1776; he took his BA in 1784 and succeeded his father - who had died when he was very young - in the rectory, holding the incumbency of Manaton until his death. The subscription list includes many west country clergy and a few titled folk from the same counties as well. Very rare: ESTC online locates copies at the British Library, Bodleian, Cambridge and Exeter in England, and only the National Library of Australia elsewhere.…