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Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Individual Item Contents: WPRP 25

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Author

Dorset, Catherine Ann Turner, 1750?-1817?).

Title

The Peacock at home; and other poems.

Imprint

London : John Murray. 1809.

Physical description

[2],iv,126,[2]p. advts. Original blue boards, uncut.

Call number

WPRP 25

Citation

Not in Jackson; CBEL,III,3. 1087.

Notes

Includes Preface. An imitation of Roscoe's Butterfly's Ball, first published in 1807 in an edition for children. This is the first edition thus; the author being induced 'to transplant this edition from the nursery to a more honorable station.' Also added are 20 pages of scientific notes and some poems previously published by her sister, Charlotte Smith, in Conversation for the Use of Young Persons.

Epigraph

none

Contents

The Peacock at Home	3
Notes	23
The Mimosa	45
The Cankered Rose	47
The Glow-Worm	52
The Captive Fly	54
To the Lady-Bird	58
The Humming-Bird	60
The Hot-house Rose	64
The Humble-Bee	67
The Doormouse just taken	71
The Squirrel	74
The Nautilis	78
The Robin’s Petition	81
The Spider	86
The Oriental Apologue	91
Written in Southampton, in 1806	93
To a Friend, who asserted that Life had no Pleasure after early Youth	97
On Wit	99
An Enigma	102
Address to the Moon	106
The Recluse and the Bear	112



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Women Poets of the Romantic Period Individual Item Contents: WPRP 25

Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Individual Item Contents: WPRP 25