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PwV - Literary Manuscripts in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection, 16th-19th centuries
Document Reference
Pw V 186
Title
MS poem, entitled 'The Vision a Poem', by Daniel Defoe; 1706
Date
Nov 1706 (c)
Extent
2 ff
Level
Item/file
Content Description
Text consists of fourteen 9-line verses.
Notes in the margin gloss the text at 18 different points. Most of these are additional to the glosses in Defoe's own autograph (Pw V 187), although the copy here has been identified as secondary.
A note in a different hand has added 'No 10. WJ' in the top left corner of f 1.
Title Of Work
The Vision a Poem
First Line of Poem
Come hither ye dreamer of dreams
Last Line of Poem
To tell If he shew'd us, lesse Manners or brains
Language
English
Term
parliament, the Union, 1707
Physical Description
One sheet folded once to form two folios
Condition
Good
Descriptive Features
Watermark: Arms of Amsterdam and cartouche with letters RCT, 113 x 80 mm.
Italic
Watermark
Arms of Amsterdam
Related Material
Index, ELM III, DeD 9
University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 187
University of Nottingham Library:
Publication Note
F. H. Ellis, 'Notes for an Edition of Defoe's Verse', Review of English Studies, new series vol 32 (1981) pp 398-407
D. Defoe, The Vision (?Edinburgh, 1706)
POAS, VII (1975), pp 214-220
Defoe, Daniel, The Vision (?Edinburgh, 1706) & Poems on Affairs of State, vol VII (1975), pp 214-20
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Persons
Code
PersonName
Dates of existence
NA74429
Hamilton; John (1656-1708); 2nd Lord Belhaven
1656-1708
NA1114
Defoe; Daniel (1661-1731); poet and writer
1661-1731
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