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The heptalogia : or, The seven against sense : a cap with seven bells.
Specimens of modern poets
London : Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly, 1880.
[6], 102, [2], 32 p ; 19 cm.
Parodies of Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Browning, Coventry Patmore, Robert, Lord Lytton, D. G. Rossetti, and A. C. Swinburne - information from Wise, T. J, "A bibliography of the writings in prose and verse of Algernon Charles Swinburne".
"Specimens of modern poets" - title-page.
With a half-title.
Includes final advertisement leaf.
Publisher's 32 p. catalogue after text.
Ms. previous shelfmarks in pencil.
Contents: I. The higher pantheism in a nutshell ; II. John Jones ; III. The poet and the woodlouse ; IV. The person of the house (Idyl CCCLXVI) ; V. Last words of a seventh-rate poet ; VI. Sonnet for a picture ; VII. Nephelidia.
Wise, T. J. A Swinburne library. p. 111
Armorial bookplate of Eton College School Library recording donation: "Major General Villiers Hatton" (typed) ; stamp of Eton College School Library.
20th century red morocco half-binding with red cloth boards, gilt fillets, and gilt lettering ; original publisher's cloth bound with text ; bound by Riviere & Son (binder's stamp on front endpaper).
Hatton, Villiers, 1852 - 1914 Major General, donor.
England London.
B26294