ROSCOMMON, Wentworth Dillon, Earl of.
Poems … to which is added an Essay on Poetry, by the Earl of Mulgrave, now Duke of Buckingham. Together with Poems by Mr Richard Duke.
London: Printed for J. Tonson … 1717.
8vo., pp. [20], 536; a very good copy in contemporary panelled calf, rebacked.
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Poems … to which is added an Essay on Poetry, by the Earl of Mulgrave, now Duke of Buckingham. Together with Poems by Mr Richard Duke.
First edition of this collection, notable for Richard Duke’s unfinished Review, a vehement satire in response to, and in the allegorical manner of, Absalom and Achitophel, and featuring Dryden as one of the figures satirised. According to Tonson in the preface, it was written ‘a little after the publishing [of] Mr. Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel; he was persuaded to undertake it by Mr. Sheridan, then Secretary to the Duke of York; but Mr. Duke finding Mr. Sheridan design’d to make use of his Pen to vent his Spleen against several Persons at Court that were of another Party, than that he was engaged in, broke off proceeding in it, and left it as it is now printed’.
Macdonald 326; Case 301.
