The Holgate Miscellany (The Pierpont Morgan Library-MA 1057): A diplomatic edition.
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Title
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The Holgate Miscellany (The Pierpont Morgan Library-MA 1057): A diplomatic edition.
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Identifier
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AAI9732911
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identifier
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9732911
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Creator
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Denbo, Michael Roy.
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Contributor
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Adviser: W. Speed Hill
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Date
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1997
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, English
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Abstract
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The Holgate Miscellany is an early seventeenth-century verse commonplace book housed in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City. It contains poetry by John Donne, Ben Jonson, Thomas Carew, Richard Corbett, William Strode, Francis Beaumont, Henry Wotton, Michael Drayton, James I, et al. It also includes Shakespeare's Sonnet 106. The miscellany was more than likely compiled by William Holgate (1590-1649?), who also wrote poems found in the miscellany. Many of the poems are topical and describe political events of the period. Very little is known specifically about William Holgate: his family lived in Saffron Waldon, Essex.;The edition is in two volumes. Volume I includes an introduction, bibliography, first-line index, index of known authors, and notes on each individual poem. Manuscript copies of all known poems are supplied. Each poem is collated to its initial publication. Collation to other manuscripts is supplied when appropriate. Notes include biographical information on the poets, relevant historical information, textual analysis, and critical commentary. Volume II is a transcription of the miscellany.;The primary focus of this edition is to use the text to delineate social activity. The miscellany shows clear affinity with sections of British Library Add. MS 23229, which is part of the Conway Papers. The compiler of the relevant sections of Add. MS 23229 is also unknown, but collation and sequence of poems demonstrates he/she may very well have known William Holgate. Also, on occasion, William Holgate transcribed poems from printed-material. This fact refines the current critical distinction commonly made between print and manuscript cultures, at least as those terms pertain to the early seventeenth century in England.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
