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    • Author/Creator:Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?
    • Title:Poems, [circa 1630-1639].
    • Physical Description:1 item (95 p.) ; 20 cm.

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    • Notes:Text block foliated 1-47 in a contemporary hand, but with an unnumbered textual leaf between 1 and 2. Blank leaves at the beginning and end of the volume.
      "Gower" written in upper-right corner of first blank page (unfoliated).
      Byname: Gower Manuscript.
      Binding: contemporary limp parchment, gilt; central gilt lozenge within a single line frame. Two tie holes in each cover.
      In English.
      Ex libris John Leveson-Gower, Earl Gower; from the collection of the Dukes of Sutherland; ex libris Robert S. Pirie. Purchased from Richard Linenthal (Sotheby's New York sale, 2015 December 3 & 4, lot 142) on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2015.
    • Access and use:This material is open for research.
    • Biographical / Historical note:Thomas Carew (1595?-1639?), English courtier and lyric poet who was a major figure among the "Cavalier Poets."
    • Summary:Scribal manuscript, on paper, in a single unidentified hand, in italic, containing the texts of 47 poems by Thomas Carew, some of which have corrections in his hand. Corrected texts include "A Rapture," "To Ben Johnson," "Lipps and Eyes," "To the Countess of Anglesey," and "An Elegie on the La: Pen:." Most of the poems in the volume are lyrics, sonnets and dialogues addressed to "Celia," but the volume also includes "To Saxham" and a group of elegies.
    • Format:Archives or Manuscripts
    • Cite as:Thomas Carew, Poems. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
    • Subjects:Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?
      English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700.
      English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700.
      Great Britain--Court and courtiers.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Gower, John Leveson Gower, Earl, 1694-1754--Bookplate.
      Pirie, Robert S.--Bookplate.
    Link to this page: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12785654