TINTINHULL

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Macabre anonymous manuscript nineteenth-century poem, apparently unpublished, from the papers of the Napier family of Tintinhull, a fine example of gothic verse, beginning 'Cold, Damp, Lone, | Lies the flesh that once so glowed'.

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[Napier family of Tintinhull, Somerset; nineteenth-century macabre verse; Victorian gothic]

Publication details:

Without date or place. [England, 1840s?]

£90.00

2pp., 16mo. On first leaf of bifolium of watermarked laid de la Rue paper. In good condition, on aged and lightly-creased paper. A fair copy, neatly written out in a delicate hand. The poem is 28 lines long, arranged in four 7-line stanzas. Short and effective, with no hint of Christian piety to lighten the unremitting gloom.

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TINTINHULL

Macabre anonymous manuscript nineteenth-century poem, apparently unpublished, from the papers of the Napier family of Tintinhull, a fine example of gothic verse, beginning 'Cold, Damp, Lone, | Lies the flesh that once so glowed'.

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