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Article: Early poems by - and not by - Fielding. (Henry Fielding)
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- Philological Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 1993
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On November 1727 appeared a pair of poems, advertised as "The Coronation. A Poem. And an Ode on the Birth-day. By Mr. Fielding," printed for Benjamin Creake and sold by James Roberts. We know of this publication only from the newspaper advertising, as no copy has been found. Since David Foxon first listed the advertisements,(1) the authorial "Mr. Fielding" named there has been taken to be Henry Fielding--really the only plausible candidate--and the poems therefore his earliest known work in print, frustratingly represented however by these bodiless titles alone. Fielding did not reprint the poems with other early verse he collected for the first volume of his Miscellanies ...
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Article: Works of Henry Fielding: Fielding's Life
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...Fielding, Henry Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Fielding's Life Born on April 22, 1707, at Sharpham Park in Somersetshire, Henry Fielding was destined to confront a peculiarly eighteenth-century ...
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