An Collins, Divine Songs and Meditacions

W. Scott Howard (University of Denver)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.04: English Writing and Culture of the Seventeenth Century, 1625-1688.
Vol. editors: Jennifer Brady (Rhodes College), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Neil Forsyth (Université de Lausanne), Claire Preston (Queen Mary, University of London), J A Roe (University of York), Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University)

Domains

Political Science

Dates

First circulation or publication 1653

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Essays/ Lectures (any)
Non-fictional prose
Poem collection

Resources

Divine Songs and Meditacions is the only known work by the seventeenth century English autobiographical, political, and religious poet, An Collins. The volume presents twenty-three of her poems plus one preface, “To the Reader”, written in prose. The book itself is an octavo composed of fifty-two leaves that was rebound in the early nineteenth century with English polished calf.

Divine Songs and Meditacions was published in 1653 by Richard Bishop, brother-in-law of Miles Flesher, who acquired William Stansby’s business in 1635 and was a printer in London at St. Peter’s Pauls Wharf from 1636-54. Of the more than one hundred books that Bishop produced during those years, this is the only volume of …

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Citation: Howard, W. Scott. "Divine Songs and Meditacions". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 29 August 2005 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=15444, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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