Poetry.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Literary and oral genre rooted in the compressed and cogent imaginative awareness or associations of experiences, ideas, or emotional responses and arranged under an organized criterion of meaning, conscious and unconscious expression, symbolism, formal or informal pattern, sound, and rhythm. The genre encompasses narrative, dramatic, satiric, didactic, erotic, and personal forms. (AAT) All poetry, except ballads, was indexed under this heading in the published catalogues. (NLS) .
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Manuscript in the hand of George Crabbe : lines copied from "Paradise Lost", Book V, by John Milton., 1780-1832.
Item
Identifier: MS.42124
Scope and Contents
The manuscript runs, with omissions, from line 120, "That what in sleep thou didst abhor to dream", to line 659, "Is heard no more in Heaven; he of the first".
The manuscript would appear to have been a part of a larger manuscript; or, perhaps, to have been extracted from a notebook.
Dates:
1780-1832.