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| Other title: | As late disconsolate in pensive mood.
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| Other uniform titles: | Reynolds, Frances, 1729-1807. As late disconsolate in pensive mood.
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
Ashmore, Helen.
Wendorf, Richard.
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| Other authors / contributors: | Houghton Library.
Johnsonians (Society)
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| Notes: | "15 September 1995."
"The long poem [by Frances Reynolds] ... is ... published (and reproduced in facsimile) here for the first time with the hope that it will draw attention both to Frances Reynolds's interests as a writer and to her long and complicated relationship with Samuel Johnson, who has emended her lines in red ink."--Pref.
"'As late disconsolate in pensive mood' (to quote the poem's opening line; it never received a title) is printed here from the holograph manuscript in the Hyde Collection at Four Oaks Farm."--Pref.
"Preface"--P. [3] of prelim., typesigned: Richard Wendorf.
" ... Helen Ashmore has supplied an introduction based on her extensive research on Frances Reynolds, and has also provided a transcription of the text and of Johnson's emendations."--Pref.
Contains some biographical references.
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