William Shenstone, The School-Mistress

Sandro Jung (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)

Ed. by Janet Todd, University of Cambridge
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.05: English Writing and Culture from the Glorious Revolution to the French Revolution, 1689-1789.
Vol. editors: Paul Baines (University of Liverpool), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Pat Rogers (University of South Florida), Nicholas Seager (University of Keele)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1742

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Poetry (any)

Resources

William Shenstone (1714-63), poet, landscape gardener and arbiter of taste, is remembered for a handful of poetic compositions, among which The School-Mistress is ranked his most important. Shenstone was an avid reader and continued to revise his poetry throughout his life, a fact explaining the numerous variants of his poems. There are three different versions of The School-Mistress, the first published in his juvenile Oxford collection of Poems on Various Occasions of 1737. The poem was revised for separate publication in 1742 and further revised and enlarged (35 stanzas) for the publication in its final form in 1748 in Robert Dodsley's Collection of Poems by Several Hands.

When Shenstone started w…

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Citation: Jung, Sandro. "The School-Mistress". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 October 2002 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7653, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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