"[Tophet]"
- Archive Work ID: poems.tapr
- Uniform Title: "[Tophet]" [e-text]
- First Line: Such Tophet was; so looked the grinning fiend
- Language: English
- First Published: 1769 (pr. 1783)
- References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 75; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 100-103
- Summary: Written c. 1749 under a sketch of the Rev. Henry Etough drawn by William Mason. First published, ll. 1-2, 5-8, as On Mr. E---'s being ordained and beginning "Such Tophet was--so grum'd the bawling Fiend", in The London Magazine 52 (June 1783), 296. The text, ll. 1-2, 5-8, was also issued on an etching by Michael Tyson of the drawing of Tophet by Mason, 1769.
1 Manuscript:
- Archive MS ID: mss.0247 (Source: EAD/XML)
- Title: Lines by ... on Mr. E___'s characature
- Date: [between 1793 and c. 1800]
- Physical Description: [1?] page, 240 mm x 180 mm (volume); transcript
- Language: English
- Location: "Manuscript Collection", M.a.182, 157, Manuscripts Collection, Folger Shakespeare Library,
Washington, D.C., USA <http://www.folger.edu/>
- Alternate Form:
Microfilm copy available in Microfilm Collection, FILM Fo. 2321, Microfilm of M.a.182, 1 microfilm reel : negative, 12:1, 12 feet ; 35 mm.
- References: Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=36726>
- Contents: Transcript, here beginning "Such E___ was, so grinn'd the brawling fiend", in a volume entitled Manuscript Collection, a miscellaneous collection in prose and verse in which are included several original pieces 1793 ... Vol. I (97 leaves), compiled by A. S. W.
Contents
- Collection: Poems, [ca. 1725]-1771
- Work: "[Tophet]" [e-text]
- Manuscripts: 1