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Francis Davison

 
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Synopsis

The Poetical Rhapsody: To Which Are Added Several Other Pieces by Francis Davison is a significant early-17th-century English poetry collection that Davison compiled and expanded, featuring a diverse array of lyrics, translations, and dramatic works. This volume includes sonnet sequences, odes, elegies, madrigals, and short poems, with notable pieces such as A Dialogue between the Lover and his Heart and A Dialogue between a Lover, Death, and Love, alongside various invectives and allegories on love. It also presents translations of Petrarch and Anacreon, as well as a substantial section of Davison’s own Psalm translations, complemented by additional poems and fragments attributed to Davison and his contemporaries. The collection showcases a blend of classical forms and Elizabethan experimentation, intertwining courtly passion with philosophical reflections on time, beauty, and desire. This edition reflects later scholarly contributions by Nicholas Harris Nicolas and an 1836 London imprint by William Pickering, while the original work originates from Davison’s era, marking it as a landmark miscellany of his verse and related pieces.

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