Seatonian poems. / By the Rev. J. M. Neale, M.A., late scholar of Trinity College; warden of Sackville College, East Grinstead.

Neale, J.M. (John Mason), Anglican hymn writer, founder Ecclesiological late Cambridge Camden Society, 1818-1866.

Published by Cambridge: Deighton, Bell; 1864., London: Bell and Daldy,

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[1], vi, [1], 267 p.; 18 cm. The Seatonian prize, awarded annually in the University of Cambridge since 1750 for the best English poem on a sacred subject, was earned ten times by Neale for: The loosing of the Euphratean angels, 1845 - Edom, 1849 - Mammon, 1852 - Judith, 1856 - Sinai, 1857 (`commenced in the morning, and the fair copy completed in the evening, of one and the same day') - Egypt, 1858 - The Disciples at Emmaus, 1859 - Ruth, 1860 - King Josiah, 1862 - The seven churches of Asia, 1863. -- This volume is dedicated, surprisingly `To the Lord Bishop of Chichester [Ashurst Turner Gilbert], these Seatonian poems are, in token of veneration of his character and office, and of thankfulness for his many labours, by permission, dedicated.' Gilbert, a strong anti-Tractarian and principal of Brasenose College, in 1841 had successfully led the opposition to Neale's Oxford counterpart Isaac Williams for the Poetry Professorship, and in 1849 as Neale's diocesan bishop had inhibited him `from the exercise of clerical functions in my diocese', in effect until lifted in 1863. -- The book has been rebound in maroon cloth, spine stamping within scotch rules: Rev. Neale / Seatonian / Poems - the front panel of the original cloth of the same color, stamped with a floriated cross, is mounted on the upper cover. -- The flyleaf carries a Latin inscription, signed: JMN, with the year written as MDLXIV. -- The intent of his daughter, Mary Sackville Lawson (recorded in Collected hymns, sequences, and carols, 1914), to issue `a companion volume, containing his poems' was not realized. VG maroon binder's cloth. Flyleaf signed with initials by author.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Seatonian poems. / By the Rev. J. M. Neale, M.A., late scholar of Trinity College; warden of Sackville College, East Grinstead.
• Publisher: Cambridge: Deighton, Bell; 1864., London: Bell and Daldy,
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st collected
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)