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As in many households in the late eighteenth century, writing verses was a pastime with the Austen family, and the composition of ingenious riddles and charades provided a source of lively entertainment. This volume of verses by Jane Austen and her family contains all the known poems by Jane herself as well as a selection of work by her mother, her sister Cassandra, four of her brothers, her uncle James, her nieces Anna and Fanny, her nephew James Edward and other relatives. David Selwyn provides an introduction and full explanatory notes; his transcriptions, taken from autograph manuscripts or from the earliest copies, are precise in terms of spelling punctuation and layout. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Several kinds of poems seem to be written as games including riddles and charades, poems written to rhyme with “rose” and poems written to include lines ending in -- verse, sorrow, hearse, purse, and morrow – or words containing those words in that order. The answers to the riddles and charades are given in the explanatory notes section.
In my opinion, the poems written by Jane are not particularly memorable; she was a much better novelist than poet. I particularly enjoyed the poems written by her brother James, which included a poem to his son on the death of his pony, two poems about the same cat, a poem to Jane upon the publication of Sense and Sensibility, and a poem in memory of Jane. ( )