The Poems and Songs of Henry Hall of Hereford
A Jacobite Poet of the 1690s
Oliver Pickering
Click cover to enlarge Buy hardback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Legenda 13 September 2022 • 242pp ISBN: 978-1-839541-39-1 (hardback) • RRP £85, $115, €99 ISBN: 978-1-839541-40-7 (paperback, 8 May 2025) ISBN: 978-1-839541-41-4 (JSTOR ebook) Access online: Books@JSTOR EnlightenmentEnglishPoetryMusic Henry Hall (c. 1656-1707), Organist of Hereford Cathedral and composer of church music, was also a compulsive writer of lively and irreverent verse, a notably convivial local personality, and a fiercely Jacobite opponent of William III and Mary II. Political satires feature prominently among the 150 mainly unpublished poems and songs attributable to him. These also include outspoken epistles to like-minded male friends, local satires, drinking songs, love poems, riddles, and tributes to national figures, among them John Dryden and his friend Henry Purcell. In this first study of Hall’s poetic output Oliver Pickering places him in context and surveys in detail the manuscript and printed circulation of his work. Twenty-five poems have been chosen for editing, all but one previously unpublished. Oliver Pickering, formerly Deputy Head of Special Collections in Leeds University Library, is Honorary Fellow in the School of English at Leeds and a Fellow of the English Association.
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For a contents listing, see this volume at JSTOR. Bibliography entry: Pickering, Oliver, The Poems and Songs of Henry Hall of Hereford: A Jacobite Poet of the 1690s (Legenda, 2022) First footnote reference: 35 Oliver Pickering, The Poems and Songs of Henry Hall of Hereford: A Jacobite Poet of the 1690s (Legenda, 2022), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Pickering, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Pickering, Oliver. 2022. The Poems and Songs of Henry Hall of Hereford: A Jacobite Poet of the 1690s (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Pickering 2022: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Pickering 2022: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Poems-Songs-Henry-Hall-Hereford |