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    Divine Songs and Meditacions (1653)
    Divine Songs and Meditacions (1653)
    Divine Songs and Meditacions (1653)
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    Divine Songs and Meditacions (1653)

    By Anne Collins and Stanley N. Stewart

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Divine Songs and Meditacions (1653) - Anne Collins

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      Title: Divine Songs and Meditacions (1653)

      Author: Anne Collins

      Editor: Stanley N. Stewart

      Release Date: October 27, 2011 [EBook #37867]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIVINE SONGS AND MEDITACIONS ***

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      AN. COLLINS

      DIVINE SONGS AND MEDITACIONS

      (1653)

      Selected, with an

      Introduction, by

      Stanley N. Stewart

      Publication Number 94

      William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

      University of California

      Los Angeles

      1961

      GENERAL EDITORS

      Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan

      Ralph Cohen, University of California, Los Angeles

      Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles

      Lawrence Clark Powell, Clark Memorial Library

      ADVISORY EDITORS

      John Butt, University of Edinburgh

      James L. Clifford, Columbia University

      Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago

      Louis A. Landa, Princeton University

      Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota

      Everett T. Moore, University of California, Los Angeles

      James Sutherland, University College, London

      H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles

      CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

      Edna C. Davis, Clark Memorial Library

      INTRODUCTION

      In 1815, the library of Thomas Park, which had already passed from Park to Thomas Hill to Longman, was sold. In the catalog of that collection, a volume of devotional and autobiographical verse written by one Anne Collins, Divine Songs and Meditacions (1653), was described as so rare as to be probably unique.[1] That same year, Longman and his associates published an anthology of Old Books in English Literature, Revived, edited by Sir Egerton Brydges and entitled Restituta. Brydges, who acknowledged the help of Park in editing the four volume work,[2] reprinted long passages from the Songs and Meditacions. By mid-century, the book had passed through the possession of James Midgeley, Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Thomas Thorpe,[3] and Richard Heber. In 1878, Alexander Dyce reprinted all but the last stanza of Another Song exciting to spirituall Mirth, and some twenty years later, S. Austin Allibone included reference to Anne Collins in his Critical Dictionary of English Literature. By this time, however, the remaining copy of Divine Songs and Meditacions seems to have slipped from sight; scholars were a long time finding it, but in 1924, the unique copy bearing the autograph of Thomas Park was removed from the library at Britwell Court and sold by Sotheby to A. S. W. Rosenbach, who acted in behalf of Henry E. Huntington, in whose memorial library it now remains. If a second edition of the work ever existed, as claimed by Allibone,[4] it has vanished (to my knowledge, without a further trace); for all practical purposes, Anne Collins and her Divine Songs and Meditacions are unknown even to scholars of seventeenth-century literature.

      Though it appears that the verses of Anne Collins have been spared extinction, it is problematic whether they will escape obscurity. Dr. Johnson and Warton did not mention them. Yet knowledgeable, if lesser, men found the Songs and Meditacions worth reading. We may infer, for example, that Thomas Park, who was praised by Southey as the most distinguished authority on Old-English poetry, admired the Songs, for it seems probable that he recommended to Brydges the passages finally anthologized in Restituta. In any case, for their metrical variety, spiritual tone, and structural quaintness, Brydges found the Songs and Meditacions to be of value. Allibone reprinted Brydges’ commentary, implying (at least) that he had no strong quarrel with it; and in our own century, I. A. Williams, having read the

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