THE THIMBLE, AN HEROI-COMICAL POEM, in four cantos. Dedicated to Miss Anna-Maria Woodford. By a gentleman of Oxford

Edité par London: printed for J. Shuckburgh at the Sun in Fleet-street; and sold by M. Cooper at the Globe in Pater-noster-row, 1744

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4to, pp. viii, 27; title and final (blank) page rather dusty; with tear in title page touching rule (not text) and with no loss; sewn, as issued, and uncut. Second edition, revised and enlarged (though not so designated): a version in two cantos had appeared as a folio the year before. A young man's first appearance in print, employing the genre used so brilliantly by Pope a generation earlier. Hawkins's literary debt is specified in the preface: 'I have endeavour'd in some particular Passages to imitate the Manner of Mr. Pope's Rape of the Lock, upon a Presumption, that the following of so good a Pattern would be deemed meritorious in so young a Writer as myself. I ought likewise to acknowledge, that I had in View the Episode of the Patten in Mr. Gay's Trivia.' William Hawkins (1721-1801) was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, founded by Thomas Tesdale, one of his ancestors; in 1751 he was elected Oxford Professor of Poetry. Boswell records that Johnson took pleasure in boasting of the many eminent men who had been educated at Pembroke: 'In this list are found the names of Mr Hawkins the Poetry Professor, Mr Shenstone, Sir William Blackstone and others. Being himself a poet, Johnson was peculiarly happy in mentioning how many of the sons of Pembroke were poets; adding, with a smile of sportive triumph, 'Sir we are a nest of singing birds'.' (However, Oliver Goldsmith, reviewing Hawkins's collected works in 1758, thought little of this performance and remarked that 'Humour once missed, most effectually turns the author ridiculous'.) Hawkins went on to publish theological works, and a fair number of sermons, but his passion was for writing plays. Boswell recounts a conversation involving Johnson and Garrick in which Hawkins's Siege of Aleppo was discussed with derision. Garrick's memory of it was vague: 'There was a reverend gentleman, who wrote a tragedy, the Siege of something, which I refused'. Hawkins published a collected edition of his works in 1758, in which the second volume was devoted to his poems and plays, including a revised version of Shakespeare's Cymbeline. The dedication to this poem describes Miss Anna Maria Woodford as 'the compleatest housewife in Europe'. She may well have been related to the Rev. James Woodforde, whose Diary of a Country Parson (published 1924-31) is justly famous: he had a niece of this name but she lived 1757-1830. Foxon H113.…

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THE THIMBLE, AN HEROI-COMICAL POEM, in four cantos. Dedicated to Miss Anna-Maria Woodford. By a gentleman of Oxford
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[HAWKINS, William.]
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London: printed for J. Shuckburgh at the Sun in Fleet-street; and sold by M. Cooper at the Globe in Pater-noster-row
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1744
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