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Zusammenfassung These volumes will present, in some cases for the first time, the lives and works of a coterie of Nonconformist women writers from the West Country Inhaltsverzeichnis PART II VOLUME 4 Poetry and Correspondence of Mary Scott, Poetry of Hannah Towgood Wakeford, Poetry of Mary Steele Wakeford, Poetry of Marianna Attwater Poetry of Jane Attwater, Poetry and Periodical Prose of Elizabeth Coltman. Introduction I. Published Poetry 1. To Miss Aikin, on Reading her Poems (1774) 2. The Female Advocate; A Poem. Occasioned by Reading Mr. Duncombe’s Feminead (1774) 3. Verses Addressed to Miss Seward, on the Publication of her Monody on Major André (1783) 4. Messiah: A Poem, in Two Parts (1788) 5. Hymn: Family Religion (1795) 6. Memorial to Jonas Hanway, Philanthropist (1844) II. Unpublished Poetry 7. On Friendship Addressed to Sylvia, 1770 8. To Sylvia, 1770 9. Written in Mary Steele’s Friendship Book, 1773 10. A Poetic Description of John Taylor (c. 1777) 11. A Poetic Description of Herself (c. 1777) Hymns 12. Christ our Example 13. Renouncing the World 14. A Hymn of Praise in the Spring 15. A Hymn of Praise to God on the 5th of November 16. Hymn 17. Salvation through Faith. I Peter 1.9 18. God above all Praise 19. An Unchangeable God in Covenant the Soul’s Support under the Hidings of his Face 20. Resignation to the Divine Will 21. True Happiness 22. The Soul’s Victory over its Spiritual Enemies alone from God 23. Turning from the Creature to the Creator 24. The Vanity of the World and the Weakness of the Human Mind 25. A Hymn of Praise to God as the God of Nature and Grace 26. That God is a Hearer of Prayer proved from Reason, Revelation, and Experience. Psalm 65.2 27. A Consciousness of God as Omniscient and Almighty the Grand Incitement to Religion and Vigorous Endeavours af er Perfection. Genesis 17.5 28. The Justice and Tremendousness of the Curse denounced against those that love not the Lord Jesus Christ. I Corinthians 16.22 29. God the Refuge of his People in Seasons of Distress suited to a Sermon on Psalm 28.7 30. Committing the Soul to God in well doing with Hope of his accepting the Trust. Psalm 31.5 31. The Woeful Degeneracy of the Human Race. Psalm 55.23 32. A Hymn of Praise for Temporal and Spiritual Mercies 33. Pardon and Peace through a Redeemer’s Blood 34. Acknowledging the Justice of God in the Severest Dispensations of Providence yet Pleading for Mercy 35. A Hymn for my Dear Father’s Use, on his Recovery from a Dangerous Illness. Compos’d at his Desire 36. Another. Psalm. 103 Psalm 116 37. A Hymn of Thanksgiving for my Dear Father’s Recovery. Psalm 116 38. An Evening Hymn 39. I Chronicles 29.11–14 40. On a Day Appointed for General Fasting and Prayer III. Poems Addressed to Mary Scott by William Steele IV 41. To Mira 42. [While others rove o’er fancy’s fairy maze] Poetry of Hannah Towgood Wakeford 43. Verses wrote by Mrs. Hannah Wakeford, only Daughter of the Revd Mr. Towgood, of Exeter, on Occasion of receiving a Mourning Ring some months before her own Death, at the Funeral of Mrs. Hannah Wakeford, her Husband’s Grandmother, and found after her Decease in her own Hand-writing 44. A New Year’s Midnight Reflection. By a Lady 45. An Anigma 46. Another 47. Sent in the Beginning of a Letter to Aurelia 48. Another 49. Soliloquy 50. Soliloquy 51. Meditation Poetry of Mary Steele Wakeford ‘Poems on Devotional Subjects’ 52. [Omnipotent Creator, gracious God] 53 [My infant Days, my Childhood past] 54. A Reflection the past Year December 3, 1748 55. On Dr. Young’s Night Thoughts (1748) 56. [Farewell to Life, farewell to pain and woe] 57. [Aminta, though my Eyes ne’er saw thy beauties] 58. [Were I to measure Earth and sea] 59. Isaiah 55.6 & 7 60. [My trembling drooping spirit faints] 61. [If love’s constraining pow’r can warm] 62. [My sovereign Lord, my gracious God] 63. [Almighty Lord to thee I life] 64. [ Jesus and didst thou condescend] (1769) Miscellaneous Poems 65. A Motto for a Watc...
