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miscellanies, which evolved in the late 17th and 18th centuries, were compiled by editors and published by booksellers to make a profit. While manuscript miscellanies were produced by a small coterie of writers, and so were constructed around their own personal tastes, printed miscellanies were increasingly aimed towards a popular audience, and bear the marks of commercially driven, money making, opportunistic endeavours.
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and indeed constructs – taste, novelty and contemporaneity in assembling a synchronous body of material. It should be distinguished from the anthology, which honours – and perpetuates – the value of historicity and the perdurance of established canons of artistic discrimination in gathering texts recognized for their aesthetic legitimacy.
1100:(1984): "One of the most interesting poets is the ubiquitous ‘Anonymous’, whose voice almost never registers in conventional literary history". Crucially, he suggests that we would know more about "the landscape of eighteenth-century poetry" if more attention was paid to "the innumerable miscellanies by several hands".
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and economic concerns underlying the production and consumption of literature. Miscellanies were assembled, marketed and sold with a contemporary reading audience in mind, and reveal a dynamic between the taste which they played a part in shaping, and the preoccupations of the editors who complied
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poems in miscellanies was equally varied: sometimes editors would carefully identify authors, but most often the miscellaneous form would allow them to disregard conventions of authorship. Often authors were indicated by a set of initials, a partial name, or by reference to a previous poem "by the
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This last distinction is quite often visible in the basic categorical differences between anthologies on the one hand, and all other types of collections on the other, for it is in the one that we read poems of excellence, the "best of
English poetry," and it is in the other that we read poems of
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was launched, which offers a searchable critical edition of seven printed verse miscellanies published in the 16th and early 17th centuries. While some projects focus on creating online editions of the most significant verse miscellanies, others have attempted to arrange a corpus of miscellanies
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Verse miscellanies are collections of poems or poetic extracts that vary in authorship, genre, and subject matter. The earlier tradition of manuscript verse continued to be produced in the 16th century and onwards, and many of these early examples are preserved in national, state, and university
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In a competitive market the title of miscellanies was increasingly important. Without a specific selling-point, more generic complications would use catch-all titles as a tactic to familiarise themselves with a wide range of audiences and to appeal to a breadth of tastes. Titles could evoke the
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The broadest distinction is between manuscript and printed miscellanies. Manuscript miscellanies were carefully compiled by hand, but also circulated, consumed, and sometimes added to in this organic state – they were a prominent feature of 16th and early 17th century literary culture. Printed
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literary pieces for example) or could be republished years later when their original contents had matured in literary value. Suarez also notes that eighteenth-century miscellanies often contained "extracts from a variety of single-author publications" and, furthermore, that "many miscellanies
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interest. Out of the differences between a principle of selection (the anthology) and a principle of collection (miscellanies and beauties), then, comes a difference in aesthetic value, which is precisely what is at issue in the debates over the "proper" material for inclusion into the canon.
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Miscellanies frequently placed emphasis on variety, novelty and fashionability, providing their readers with a range of different pieces by various writers, but also keeping them abreast of the newest developments in the literary market. They are a prime demonstration of early marketing and
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Once the materials and means of printing became cheaper, diffuse prose was no longer at a comparative economic disadvantage with compressed poetry. The periodical format, in particular, gave rise to a variety of shorter prose forms that competed for and largely won over the audience for
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is a verse miscellany that was produced in the 1530s and early 1540s, and contains a range of works, from original pieces and fragments to translations and medieval verse. Compiled by three eminent women, it is one of the first examples of men and women collaborating on a literary work.
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The contents and omissions, the packaging and marketing, the publication history, and the reception history of every verse collection produced in the 18th century reveals how literary culture was conceived of by its creators and how those creators wished to intervene in the literary
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Miscellanies were an influential literary form at the time. From the beginning of the 18th century, verse miscellanies were gathering together a selection of poetic works by different authors, past and present, and so played a part in the development of the concept of the
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erial fiction became an increasingly popular ingredient of these miscellanies, the syndicators often began by supplying metropolitan advertising and intelligence, and soon also provided regular features such as poetry and critical essays, or columns aimed at women and
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The importance of printed miscellanies is evidenced by the fact that there are some 1,136 surviving verse miscellanies and anthologies (including reprints and separate issues, but excluding songbooks) for the seventy-five years from 1700 to 1774 – more than fifteen per
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seeks to create a freely available online database of the 1000-plus verse miscellanies published in the 18th century, based on a comprehensive bibliography compiled by
Michael F. Suarez, and supplied by the world’s single largest collection of miscellanies held in The
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663:(1748) was copied entirely by Dublin booksellers in 1751, though it also underwent other, more minor piracies in the English literary market – such as unauthorized continuations, supplements, or companion texts attempting to exploit the reputation of the original.
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or pseudonymous attributions, as well as misattributions to other authors – or even made-up or deceased persons. Within a miscellany, editors and booksellers would often exercise considerable freedom in reproducing, altering, and extracting texts. Due to early
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miscellanies remained significant in a more restricted literary context, both in manuscript and printed forms, mainly as a vehicle for collections of shorter pieces of poetry, but also other works. Their numbers increased until their peak of importance in the
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For most other poets, women especially, publication in a miscellany was the only way in which their work might reach the public. Many other ephemeral satirical poems, circulating as broadsheets or in manuscript, were gathered in the successive editions of
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of authorship they could offer, miscellanies often enabled the inclusion and so expression of more submerged voices, such as those of women, and more marginal forms of writing, such as the comic, the curious, and the crude. As Dustin
Griffin has noted:
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miscellanies came into its established form in the 16th and 17th centuries, and reached a highpoint in the 18th century. Although literary miscellanies would often contain critical essays and extracts of prose or drama, their main focus was popular
950:(1765). Miscellanies also played a part in the development of other literary forms, particularly the novel. Since so many collections included prose extracts alongside poetry, often from eighteenth-century novels such as Laurence Sterne's
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lists almost 5000 verse miscellanies which were printed between 1701 and 1800. Due to the sheer number and variety of miscellanies printed in the 18th century, there are few generalizations that can be made about them. From the polite
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In light of such developments there have arisen projects attempting to make the vast number and array of verse miscellanies more accessible to modern researchers and readers, most prominently through the process of online
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The study of miscellanies has become vibrant in recent years, encouraged by controversies about canon formation as well as by the growth of interest in reception history, the history of reading and the history of the
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has drawn attention to the cultural and literary importance of these non-canonical, lesser-known and ephemeral kinds of popular verse – such as the recent discovery of a poem spuriously attributed to John Milton,
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of individual works and authors, is an important part of the history of literary culture. In this context, the miscellany has grown rapidly in interest in eighteenth-century studies. As
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As readers and publishers matured in the eighteenth century, however, another form appeared that challenged the dominance of the miscellany: the ‘anthology’, a comprehensive selection of the best fashionable
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940:(1738), were from early on attempting to construct a notion of a national literary heritage. The revival of interest in English balladry is also largely due to miscellanies, most famously
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which otherwise would have been lost – and thus offering a unique insight into the vibrant literary life of the 18th century. A prime example of such curiosity-shop publications is
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It is generally accepted that miscellanies offer insight into the popular taste of the moment, of what people read and how they read it; yet they also provide information about the
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Most medieval miscellanies include some religious texts, and many consist of nothing else. A few examples are given here to illustrate the range of material typically found. The
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in the early 19th century. The printed miscellany gradually morphed into the format of the regularly published magazine, and many early magazines used the word in their titles.
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verse miscellanies have been preserved, the
Auchinleck Manuscript survives as a good example: it was produced in London in the 1330s and offers a rare snapshot of pre-
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The fugitive miscellany. Being a collection of such fugitive pieces, in prose and verse, as are not in any other collection. With many pieces never before published.
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Although poetry maintained cultural pre-eminence for most of the 18th century, it was at the same time retreating before the advance of prose, and particularly the
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who sold them. Indeed, the range of price and format reveals the extent to which poetry was packaged and sold for different readerships. As
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There are modifications to this definition, such as the argument that miscellanies could contain elements that might be considered anthological (the inclusion of
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507:, which claimed to include "the Lucubrations of the Polite Part of the World, written upon walls, in Bog-Houses" such as the one at left of the tavern shown
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Printing technologies and the rise of the novel played an important role in reshaping the nature of miscellanies, as did changing ideas about the
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Barbara M. Benedict, ‘Collecting and the
Anthology in Early Modern Culture’ in Barbara Korte, Ralf Schneider, and Stefanie Lethbridge (eds.),
1538:(London: Johns Hopkins Press, 1996), ‘The Poets’ Corner: The Impact of Technological Changes in Printing on English Poetry’, 19–48, pp. 47–48.
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words what we call today a magazine, but poetry was no longer privileged among these publications. Verse miscellanies slowly died out in the
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is a 10th or 11th century miscellany in Old
English, Latin and Old Irish, with health-related texts taking a wide range of approaches, from
1140:(2006-2009), a digital archive of manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books from c. 1450-1720. The largest undertaking by far has been
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1159:’s Harding Collection. Begun in 2010, this project was successfully completed in September 2013. The database is currently available in a
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contains mostly biblical and liturgical texts, but also legal material, over 200 poems, and calendars. The large 9th-century
Chinese text
1083:(1774), which includes nonsense rhymes, epitaphs, inscriptions, poems made out of newspaper cuttings, as well as wills written in verse.
655:(1710) which had established copyright in England, could legally reproduce any popular miscellany that they thought would make a profit.
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J. Paul Hunter, ‘Political, satirical, didactic and lyric poetry: from the
Restoration to the death of Pope’ in John Richetti (ed.)
802:(twenty-one vols., 1810), anthologies were increasingly adopted for the publication of assorted poems. Barbara M. Benedict argues:
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964:(2000), in particular, discusses the relationship between miscellanies and prose fiction in the latter half of the 18th century.
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Often the commercial success of a miscellany would stimulate the publication of similarly titled, parasitic, and even entirely
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appropriated select pieces from earlier poetry collections, thus forming what were essentially anthologies of miscellanies."
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Harold Love and Arthur F. Marotti, "Manuscript Transmission and Circulation" in David Loewenstein, Janel M Mueller (eds.),
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One-off, occasional miscellanies might prove popular and warrant further volumes or editions, such as political pamphlets (
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Michael F. Suarez, ‘Publishing contemporary English literature, 1695–1774’ in Michael F. Suarez, Michael L. Turner (eds.)
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view of literature, miscellanies were produced for the entertainment of a contemporary audience and so instead emphasise
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Michael F. Suarez, ‘The Production and Consumption of the Eighteenth-Century Poetic Miscellany’ in Isabel Rivers (ed.)
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would be printed, circulated, and consumed. Michael F. Suarez, one of the leading authorities on miscellanies, states:
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and other medical procedures, to prayers and charms. The lavishly illuminated late 13th century
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Printed verse miscellanies arose in the latter half of the 16th century, during the reign of
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Southall, Raymond, ‘The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532–1541’,
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Southall, Raymond. "The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532–41,"
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poetry. However, most surviving manuscript verse miscellanies are from the 17th century:
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Pomeroy, Elizabeth, ‘The Elizabethan Miscellanies: Their Developments and Conventions’,
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Anthologies of British Poetry: Critical Perspectives from Literary and Cultural Studies
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Finding English Verse, 1650–1800: First-Line Indexes and Searchable Electronic Texts
1551:(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), Volume 6: 1830–1914, 144–171, p. 155.
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Graham Law and Robert L. Patten, ‘The Serial Revolution’ in David McKitterick (ed.)
1486:(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), Volume 5: 1695–1830, 649–666, p. 658.
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Dustin Griffin, ‘The Social World of Authorship 1660–1714’ in John Richetti (ed.)
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First and Second Dalhousie Manuscripts: poems and prose by John Donne and others
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Matthew Zarnowiecki, "Verse Miscellanies, Printed" in Garrett A. Sullivan (ed.)
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Making the English Canon: Print-Capitalism and the Cultural Past, 1700–1770
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The fugitive miscellany: a collection of fugitive pieces in prose and verse
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Blatt, Heather. "Describing Miscellanies in Late Medieval English Wills."
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A Miscellany of Ingenious Thoughts and Reflections in Verse and Prose
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A History of Modern Poetry from the 1890s to the High Modernist Mode
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manuscript of about 1000 to 1010. It is famous for the only text of
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Hamrick, Stephen ‘Tottel's Miscellany and the English Reformation’
1384:, 3 vols. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2012), III, 1002–1006, pp. 1002–1003.
1303:‘‘Profit and Delight’’: Printed Miscellanies in England, 1640–1682
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Books and Their Readers in Eighteenth-century England: New Essays
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The Merry Thought: or, The Glass-Window and Bog-house Miscellany
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The Merry Thought: or, The Glass-Window and Bog-house Miscellany
956:(1759), it is arguable they aided the popularisation of novels.
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The Merry Thought: or, The Glass-Window and Bog-house Miscellany
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The Merry Thought: or, The Glass-Window and Bog-house Miscellany
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2055:‘An Online Index of Poetry in Printed Miscellanies, 1640–1682.’
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Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals
1440:"An Online Index of Poetry in Printed Miscellanies, 1640–1682."
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Tradition and the Individual Poem: An Inquiry Into Anthologies
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1743:'Ragtime to riches, a musical legacy at the Bodleian Library'
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Theological miscellany (British Library, MS Additional 43460)
1652:(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 37–60, p. 41.
1416:(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 55–80, p. 62.
998:(1755) – a collection of verse by 18 women poets including
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works. Dublin booksellers, outside the jurisdiction of the
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Manuscript and printed miscellanies before the 18th century
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Jennifer Batt, ‘Eighteenth-Century Verse Miscellanies’ in
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Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online
1458:(Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 2012), p. 18.
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Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online
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A Banquet of the Muses: or The Miscellany of Miscellanies
1719:(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), pp. xxxix, xxv.
1586:(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 1–14.
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The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature
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Miscellanies, Moral and Instructive, in Prose and Verse
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Miscellanies, Moral and Instructive, in Prose and Verse
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English poetry miscellanies were published, before the
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2 vols. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1960).
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A patterned page from the Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608
2145:(Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001).
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The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature
1267:(1997; last revised 2002). Retrieved April 18, 2013.
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comes, all of which can be classed as miscellanies.
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The Arundel Harington manuscript of English poetry,
1678:(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993).
1665:(Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 2009).
1427:The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature
1382:The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature
568:Some miscellanies were even aimed at children, as
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309:libraries, as well as in private collections. The
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2191:(Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1988).
1717:The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse
1706:. September 23, 2010. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
1704:'Archive of irreverent miscellanies put online'
1560:Law and Patten, 'The Serial Revolution', p. 158
1445:8.1 (May 2002) 5.1–9. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
1399:, National Library of Scotland (July 5, 2003).
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1745:. 10 January 2010. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
1663:Collecting Women: Poetry and Lives 1700–1780
1573:(Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001), 43–55, pp. 44–45.
1483:The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
990:Many miscellanies contained exclusively the
1650:The Cambridge History of English Literature
1401:The Importance of the Auchinleck Manuscript
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2062:An index to 4600 poems in 41 miscellanies.
365:(1558–1603). One of the most influential
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2122:English Poetical Miscellanies Collection
1393:David Burnley and Alison Wiggins (eds.),
1104:Literary criticism and research projects
619:Tunbrigalia: or the Tunbridge Miscellany
1840:A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies
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1595:Suarez, ‘Poetic Miscellany’, pp. 218–9.
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598:A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies
872:advertising techniques in literature.
73:. Laura Mandell and Rita Raley state:
1290:Manuscript Miscellanies, c. 1450–1700
1288:Richard Beadle, Colin Burrow (eds.),
968:Submerged voices and marginal writing
901:Contemporary importance and influence
467:same hand"; equally often there were
183:writing, as well as several texts on
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1617:Suarez, ‘Poetic Miscellany’, p. 225.
1096:notes in his influential anthology,
1059:on a ladies' fashion accessory, the
661:Collection of Poems by Several Hands
29:and the encyclopedia in its title,
1728:Batt, ‘Verse Miscellanies’, p. 395.
1626:Batt, ‘Verse Miscellanies’, p. 397.
1146:, an ongoing project funded by the
786:In the wake of collections such as
244:the four Old English Poetic Codices
123:(fol. 521a), from the 13th century
1982:Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
947:Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
617:, 1689–1705), resort-based works (
549:, 1721–30), as elocutionary aids (
537:, 1724–27) to the partly obscene (
270:Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang
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1134:produced in set periods, such as
667:The decline of verse miscellanies
586:The Bouquet: or Blossoms of Fancy
246:from which the bulk of surviving
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1340:British Library catalogue online
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1085:Late twentieth-century criticism
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621:, 1712–40), local productions (
592:, 1730), the festive or feast (
488:Development in the 18th century
294:. A love poem in a distinctive
292:"My hope is yow for to obtaine"
2187:Sullivan, Ernest W. Jr (ed.),
2084:The Digital Miscellanies Index
2044:Laura Mandell and Rita Raley,
1855:The Foundling Hospital for Wit
1261:Laura Mandell and Rita Raley,
1143:The Digital Miscellanies Index
794:(thirteen vols., 1792–95) and
691:Changing tastes and technology
602:The Foundling Hospital for Wit
265:North French Hebrew Miscellany
187:, significant sections of the
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2039:Early Modern Literary Studies
1443:Early Modern Literary Studies
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484:) once in the public domain.
2136:Huntington Library Quarterly
2047:Anthologies and Miscellanies
1608:9/6 (2012), 394–405, p. 395.
1279:, Digital Miscellanies Index
1264:Anthologies and Miscellanies
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675:The famous opening lines of
462:from plays. The practice of
276:Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608
211:but also includes a life of
191:, and a 4th-century saint's
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776:Succession of the anthology
571:A Little Pretty Pocket-Book
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1090:An Extempore upon a Faggot
800:Works of the English Poets
792:Works of the British Poets
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723:William Harrison Ainsworth
2182:Review of English Studies
2116:Other notable collections
2108:Verse Miscellanies Online
1869:Poems on Affairs of State
1825:The Art of English Poetry
1582:Jonathan Brody Kramnick,
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1371:, n.s. 15 (1964): 142–50.
1369:Review of English Studies
1342:, North French Miscellany
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559:The Art of English Poetry
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2041:12.1 (May 2006) 1.1–23.
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678:A Tale of Two Cities
1752:Online miscellanies
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1193:History of the book
1028:Lady Mary Chudleigh
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367:English Renaissance
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1897:The Oxford Sausage
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