1720 - Scating: a poem

Schaatsen: een gedicht

1720

Titelbeschrijving:

Mr. Addison. Scating: a poem. London: E. Curll, 1720. (IV), 17, I (blanco).

8vo, 125 x 195 mm. 10 houtsneden zonder betrekking tot de tekst. Latijn, Engels

Latijnse tekst van Philip Frowde, Engelse vertaling van Thomas Newcomb 

Oorspronkelijk verschenen in Musae Anglicanae. 1699. Als een werk van Philips Frowde, zonder Engelse vertaling.

Gale Ecco Print Editions. 2010

Illustraties: 

10 kleine houtsneden zonder betrekking op de tekst

Inhoud:

Thomas Newcomb, Preface. p. III-IV

Philip Frowde, Cursus Glacialis. p. 1-5

Thomas Newcomb, Scating: a poem. p. 7-13

Mr. Pope's Verses to the Lady Mary Wortley Mountague. p. 15-17

Literatuur:

Fred W. Foster. A Bibliography of Skating. London, 1898. p. 28

David Foxon. English Verse 1701-1750: A Catalogue of Separately Printed Poems with Notes on Contemporary Collected Editions. London [etc.], 1975. n270

Edgar Wood Syers. The Poetry of Skating. London, 1905. p. 21-24.

Opmerkingen:      

Foxon (1975) gaat in tegen de mening van T.N. (Thomas Newcomb) in Scating (1720) dat Joseph Addison de auteur was.

Citaat:

Each now the Labour hardy to endure,

Who boast a steddy Strength, and Tread secure,

With panting Joy the frozen Kingdom gain,

Rush to the Shore, and hide the crackling Plain :

Now in long Tracks with failing Speed they shoot,

And tire unarm’d the Vigour of the Foot :

Now o’ver the Race in winding Circles wheel,

Drove round, and carried on their shining Steel.