Thomas Parnell

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Works in ECPA

alphabetical listing / listing in source editions

• An ALLEGORY on MAN. ()
• ANACREONTICK. ()
• ANACREONTICK. ()
• The BOOK-WORM. ()
• AN ELEGY, To an Old BEAUTY. ()
• FAIRY TALE IN THE Ancient ENGLISH Style. ()
• The FLIES. An ECLOGUE. ()
• HEALTH, an ECLOGUE. ()
• The HERMIT. ()
• HESIOD: OR, THE Rise of WOMAN. ()
• HOMER's BATRACHOMUOMACHIA: OR, THE BATTEL OF THE FROGS and MICE. ()
• THE Horse and the Olive: OR, WAR and PEACE. ()
• A HYMN TO CONTENTMENT. ()
• An Imitation of some FRENCH Verses. ()
• A NIGHT-PIECE on DEATH. ()
• SONG. ()
• A SONG. ()
• SONG. ()
• To Mr. POPE. ()
• THE VIGIL of VENUS. Written in the Time of JULIUS CAESAR, and by some ascrib'd to CATULLUS. ()

• Parnell, Thomas, 1679-1718. The Horse and the Olive: or, War and Peace. [London]: Printed for John Morphew, near Stationers-hall, 1713. [2]p.; 1/2⁰. (ESTC N842; Foxon P77; OTA K000532.000)
  • THE Horse and the Olive: OR, WAR and PEACE.
• Parnell, Thomas, 1679-1718. Poems on Several Occasions: Written by Dr. Thomas Parnell, Late Arch-Deacon of Clogher: and Published by Mr. Pope. London: printed for B. Lintot, 1722 [1721]. [8],221,[3]p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T42652; Foxon p. 554; OTA K041605.000)
  • HESIOD: OR, THE Rise of WOMAN.
  • SONG.
  • A SONG.
  • SONG.
  • ANACREONTICK.
  • ANACREONTICK.
  • FAIRY TALE IN THE Ancient ENGLISH Style.
  • THE VIGIL of VENUS. Written in the Time of JULIUS CAESAR, and by some ascrib'd to CATULLUS.
  • HOMER's BATRACHOMUOMACHIA: OR, THE BATTEL OF THE FROGS and MICE.
  • To Mr. POPE.
  • HEALTH, an ECLOGUE.
  • The FLIES. An ECLOGUE.
  • AN ELEGY, To an Old BEAUTY.
  • The BOOK-WORM.
  • An ALLEGORY on MAN.
  • An Imitation of some FRENCH Verses.
  • A NIGHT-PIECE on DEATH.
  • A HYMN TO CONTENTMENT.
  • The HERMIT.

Source editions

• Parnell, Thomas, 1679-1718. The Horse and the Olive: or, War and Peace. [London]: Printed for John Morphew, near Stationers-hall, 1713. [2]p.; 1/2⁰. (ESTC N842; Foxon P77; OTA K000532.000)
• Parnell, Thomas, 1679-1718. Poems on Several Occasions: Written by Dr. Thomas Parnell, Late Arch-Deacon of Clogher: and Published by Mr. Pope. London: printed for B. Lintot, 1722 [1721]. [8],221,[3]p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T42652; Foxon p. 554; OTA K041605.000)

Bibliography

ODNB 21390; DLB 95

Manuscripts

• Smith, Margaret M. Index of English Literary Manuscripts. Vol. III, 1700-1800 . London: Mansell, 1986-1997. Pt. 2 Gay-Philips. 235-251. Print. 4 volumes.

Editions

• Rawson, Claude, and F. P. Lock, eds. Collected Poems of Thomas Parnell. Newark, London and Toronto: University of Delaware Press, 1989. Print.

Biography

• Woodman, Thomas M. Thomas Parnell. Twayne's English authors series, 397. Boston: Twayne, 1985. Print.

Reference works

• Baines, Paul, Julian Ferraro, Pat Rogers, eds. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing, 1660-1789. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 262-263. Print.
• Radcliffe, David H., ed. Rev. Thomas Parnell (1679-1718). Spenser and the Tradition: ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830. Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Tech, 2006. Web. 14 Oct. 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20170908014740/http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/AuthorRecord.php?recordid=32945.

Criticism

• Carpenter, Andrew. Parnell and Early Eighteenth-Century Irish Poetry. Wright, Julia M., ed. A Companion to Irish Literature, Volume One. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 72. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 142-160. Print.
• Gerrard, Christine. Parnell, Pope, and Pastoral. Ribeiro, Alvaro, SJ, and James G. Basker, eds. Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. 221-240. Print.
• Matteson, Robert S. Books from the library of Thomas Parnell. Library 6(4) (Dec. 1984): 372-376. Print.
• Rawson, C. J. New Parnell Manuscripts. Scriblerian 1 (1969): 1-2. Print.
• Woodman, Thomas. Parnell, Politeness and 'Pre-Romanticism'. Essays in Criticism 33 (1983): 205-219. Print.