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An Essay on the Different Stiles of Poetry
Over 15 entries hits in ECCO and ESTC (1713, 1715, 1724, 1735, 1744, 1767, 1771, 1776, 1780, 1789, 1790, 1795, 1796, 1797).<br>
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See <u>An Essay on the Different Stiles of Poetry</u>. (London: Printed for Benj. Tooke, at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleet-street, 1713).<br>
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Parnell's first published poem. Appears to be first added to the 6th edition of <u>Poems on Several Occasions</u> in 1735. Found also in <u>Miscellaneous Poems, Original and Translated, by Several Hands</u> (1724), p. 278 &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3314296730&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;. Also in vol. III of <u>Bell's Classical Arrangement of Poetry</u> (1789), p. 8 &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3311412414&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;.<br>
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Reading and searching <u>Collected Poems of Thomas Parnell</u>,  eds. Claude Julien Rawson and F. P. Lock. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1989). Compare "To ------ on the various Styles of Poetry," from the Satires Notebook. Parnell manuscript among the Congleton papers. Poems dated 1702 to 1713. Described in Rawson and Lock, pp. 604-5.