thackwell paul (1 Ergebnisse)

8vo in fours, pp. vi, [ii], 129, [1] errata; a fine copy, uncut in the original drab boards, roan spine (since repaired with cloth), printed paper label. Early inscriptions of Ann Beavan, Hereford, dated 1829. First and only edition of poems by Paul Thackwell, who presumably came from Ross, as he signs the preface from that town, 26 June 1820. Only about a fifth of the poems are on religious subjects, and Thackwell shows an interest in secular, descriptive poetry with a longish poem titled 'The Wye', in which he shows some sensitivity to the landscape of 'the rich banks of the meand'ring Wye', and to the ruins which adorn it - those of Goodrich Castle, just below Ross. Thackwell appears to have taken some of his more specific historical information from Fosbrooke's guide, published just two years earlier, also by Farror of the same town. The book came to the notice of the Monthly Review, whose reviewer (November 1820, pp. 331-2) is barely tolerant of Thackwell's efforts, but does find something good to say about his 'poetry of the heart', which 'possesses a beauty of its own'. Three copies only in Copac, at the BL, Cambridge UL and National Library of Wales. Johnson, Provincial Poetry, 900; Jackson, Annals of English verse, p. 452 (implying that Thackwell was the editor, whereas examination of the book shows that he was clearly the author).