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Eleonora: a Panegyrical Poem: dedicated to the Memory of the late Countess of Abingdon …

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First edition of Dryden’s eulogy for Eleanora, late Countess of Abingdon, commissioned by her husband, the first Earl of Abingdon.

The countess had died in May 1691, but ‘betwixt ill health, some business, and many troubles’, publication of this eulogy was delayed until March 1692 (as the Lutrell copy is dated). The poem praises the piety and charity of its subject, its somewhat abstract manner a product of Dryden’s ‘One Disadvantage’ in its composition, ‘which is, never to have known, or seen my Lady: And to draw the Lineaments of her Mind, from the Description which I have receiv’d from others, is for a Painter to set himself at work without the living Original before him’ (p. [v]).

ESTC R1595; Macdonald 29; Pforzheimer 324; Wing D 2270.

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