“My Rare Wit Killing Sin”: Poems of a Restoration Courtier (Volume 27) (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series)

"This is the first modern edition of verse by Anne Killigrew, a poet and portrait painter born in 1660 at the very start of the Restoration, who grew up as part of the complicated political, religious, and artistic worlds of the Restoration courts of Charles II and his brother James, Duke of York. Killigrew never chose to print her verses, but instead participated in a literary circulation network including family, friends, and members of the court; her position in relation to court culture and her family's involvement with the London commercial stage gave her a unique perspective into the issues confronting a young single woman in a period during which libertinism was the dominant ethos of the courtiers. This edition lightly modernizes the spelling and punctuation of the posthumous volume of her collected verse, provides notes identifying the classical and biblical allusions which shape her works, and provides a historical context for her literary and artistic career in the introduction"--Back cover Cover Title Page Contents Illustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction Poems by Anne Killigrew Alexandreis To the Queen A Pastoral Dialogue (1) On Death First Epigram Upon being Contented with a Little The Second Epigram On Billinda The Third Epigram On an Atheist The Fourth Epigram On Galla The Complaint of a Lover Love, the Soul of Poetry To my Lady Berkeley St. John Baptist Painted by herself Herodias’s Daughter presenting to her Mother St. John’s Head On a Picture Painted by herself, representing two Nymphs of Diana’s An Invective against Gold The Miseries of Man Upon the saying that my Verses were made by another On the Birthday of Queen Catherine To My Lord Colrane, In Answer to his Complemental Verses The Discontent A Pastoral Dialogue (2) A Pastoral Dialogue (3) On My Aunt Mrs. A.K. Drown’d under London-bridge, in the Queen’s Barge, Anno 1641 On a young Lady Whose Lord was Traveling On The Duchess of Grafton Under the Name of Alinda, A Song Penelope to Ulysses An Epitaph on Herself An Ode Extemporary Counsel given to a Young Gallant in a Frolic Appendix 1: Poems about Anne Killigrew The Publisher to the Reader To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew, by John Dryden The Epitaph Engraved on her Tomb The same Turned into English To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killigrew, by John Chatwin On the Death of the Truly Virtuous Mrs. Anne Killigrew, by Edmond Elys Anagram on Mistress Anne Killigrew, who wrote one or more divine Poems, by Edmund Wodehouse Appendix 2: Poems by others printed at the end of Killigrew’s Poems but not by her Cloris’s Charms Dissolved by Eudora Upon a Little Lady Under the Discipline of an Excellent Person On the Soft and Gentle Motions of Eudora Appendix 3: Poems on the death of Killigrew’s aunt, Anne Killigrew Kirke (1607–1641) An Elegy Upon Mrs. Kirke, by Henry King Epicedium On the beautiful Lady Mrs. A.K., by Robert Heath On the Noble, and Much to be Lamented Mrs. Anne Kirke, by Henry Glapthorne Appendix 4: A Sample of Contemporary Restoration Male Courtier Poems A. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647–1680) Song of the Earl of Rochester Impromptu on Charles II Impromptu on Court Personages Upon Betty Frazer 1677 The Earl of Rochester’s Answer to a Paper of Verses Sent Him by L. B. Felton, A Dialogue Between Strephon and Daphne B. Anonymous An Heroic Poem (1681) Bibliography Index of First Lines of Poems Index