Boston prize poems : and other specimens of dramatic poetry.

Other author/creatorPaine, Robert Treat, 1773-1811.
Other author/creatorSprague, Charles, 1791-1875.
Other author/creatorWells, Thomas.
Other author/creatorJohnson, Samuel, 1709-1794.
Other author/creatorGarrick, David, 1717-1779.
Other author/creatorByron, George Gordon, Baron, 1788-1824.
Other author/creatorPope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Other author/creatorSheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.
Other author/creatorScott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Partial contents Prize ode / Charles Sprague -- Metrical pieces [unsuccessful entries] -- Prize poems -- Prologues, odes &c., English.
General notePoems submitted in 1823 for a prize offered by the manager of the Boston Theatre requesting an ode in honor of Shakespeare. Includes the prize-winning contribution by Charles Sprague and similar "prize poems" written by Boston authors for various openings of dramatic theaters in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and New Orleans, along with a selection of related dramatic prologues and odes by eighteenth and nineteenth century British writers.
General noteReproduction of original from Huntington Library.
General noteSabin no. 6502.
Citation/References note RLIN, CTRG02-B322
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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