Athenaeum Souvenir

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Anthologies

Authors: Various In Year : 1843

Book Language: English

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Preface, Contents and Letter from Thomas Hood
The Disappointed by Charles Swain
A Ghost Story by P. J. Bailey
The Infant by Agnes Strickland
An English Watering Place by J. Westland Marston
Palaces by Mary Howitt
Man's Tomb by Ner Gardiner
Song by Charles Swain
The Seaman's Funeral by J. E. Carpenter
The Guardian Angel by John Bolton Rogerson
Stanzas for Music by C. B. Greatrex, Jun.
The Atheist and the Thistles by H. W. Wynn
The Release by Isabella Varley
Ambition by Thomas Smelt
Sorrow by Ner Gardiner
The Way-Side Spring by J. E. Carpenter
Wit and Wisdom by Charles Swain
The Past by Thomas Smelt
The Bard and his Pupil by Samuel Bamford
Life's Dull Reality by Ann Hawkshaw
A Summer Evening in July by George Richardson
Remember Me by Isabella Caulton
The China Tea Cup by Eliza S. Craven Green
War by John Bolton Rogerson
The Request by John Critchley Prince
A Farewell by E. C. S.
The Emblem of Life by W. B. Flower
Falling Leaves by Ner Gardiner
The Life of Man by Robert Rose
The Mysterious One by M.

The Manchester Athenaeum was founded in 1837 as a society for the "advancement and diffusion of knowledge". This short collection of poems was published to raise money for the society's annual bazaar. The collection included contributions from 'marquee' poets of the time, including Charles Swain and Agnes Strickland, and Thomas Hood provided an entertaining preface on poetry as food for the mind. It also found space for several of the local school of poets, who were determined to show the world that Manchester was not just a centre of industry and trade. In addition to poems by Ner Gardiner, John Bolton Rogerson, Isabella Varley (later Mrs. Linnaeus Banks, author of 'The Manchester Man'), Samuel Bamford, Isabella Caulton and John Critchley Prince, the collection includes Ann Hawkshaw's first published poem and a rare published piece by Jamaican-born Robert Rose, Manchester's 'bard of colour'. - Summary by Phil Benson