POEMS, AND MISCELLANEOUS PIECES formerly written by John Free, D.D. vicar of Runcorn, in Cheshire, and lecturer of Newington in Surry.

Edité par London: printed by W. Bowyer for the Author, 1751

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8vo, pp. [x], 165, [1]; narrow blank strip trimmed from the top of the title-page, otherwise a very good copy, in recent marbled boards. First edition: the author's principal book of poems. John Free was born in Oxford in 1711, and received an MA from Christ Church in 1733. He served for a time as master of the Grammar School of St Saviour's, Southwark, beginning in 1747. He published numerous books and pamphlets on a variety of topics, including An Essay towards a History of the English Tongue (1749), which is advertised on the last page here as 'of a size very proper to be bound with these poems'. On the same page is a notice for the author's oratorio of Jephtha, which 'could not be inserted as was intended in this volume, without running to a greater expence, than the subscription price would bear'; it was included in a later edition of these poems, printed in 1757. Among the verse in this collection are several fables, 'The Kitten', 'The Formation of Woman', and 'The Concert'; the last of these is described as 'occasioned by an uproar, which happen'd in Christ Church-Hall in Oxford during the time of the musick-meeting, March 22, 1728-9'. Several poems suggest that Free had little liking of things French, most notably 'Stigand: or, the Antigallican', a poem in miltonic verse whose dedication reveals that Free was himself a member of one of the so-called Antigallican associations which had sprung up all over England in about 1745, in protest against the growing taste for French imports. The volume ends with two longer poems on biblical themes, 'The Story of Susanna' (inscribed to Miss Sukey Combe), and 'Judith, an heroick poem written at Hemsworth in Yorkshire in the months of November and December, 1730'. The first of these had been separately printed in 1730. An obituary notice for Free appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine in 1790. The Bowyer Ledgers record that 500 copies of this book were printed. An eight-page list of subscribers accounts for about 250 of these; among the names are John Free and Nathaniel Free, both merchants in Aleppo, and Christopher Tomkins of Virginia. Foxon p. 284.…

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POEMS, AND MISCELLANEOUS PIECES formerly written by John Free, D.D. vicar of Runcorn, in Cheshire, and lecturer of Newington in Surry.
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FREE, John.
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London: printed by W. Bowyer for the Author
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1751
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