The Rural Minstrel
The Rural Minstrel: A Miscellany of Descriptive Poems is an 1813 book of poetry by Patrick Brontë. It was Brontë's second book of poetry after his Cottage Poems of 1811.[1]
The title page describes the book as "Printed and sold by P.K. Holden, for the author, 1813" and that the book was sold by B. and R. Crosby & Co. of Stationer's Court, London.[2] The collection has 108 pages and was priced at 5 shillings.[3]
The collection includes a long poem set at Kirkstall Abbey, where Brontë had proposed to Maria Branwell in 1812.[4] The poem "Lines, Addressed to a Lady on her Birth-day" is dedicated to Maria on her 30th birthday.[5] The Rural Minstrel was published nine months after Patrick and Maria's wedding in December 1812.[5]
Reception
Charles Frederick Forshaw in his book The Poets of Keighley, Bingley, Haworth and District described The Rural Minstrel as a "distinct improvement upon his former work" and that "Irish reminiscences again form the staple of the subjects".[1]
The collection received a negative review in the
List of poems
- "The Sabbath Bell"
- "Kirkstall Abbey"
- "Extemporary Verses, written at a Reverend Friend's House, during his Absence"
- "Lines, Addressed to a Lady on her Birth-day"
- "An Elegy"
- "Reflections by Moonlight"
- "Winter"
- "Rural Happiness"
- "The Distress and Relief"
- "The Christian's Farewell"
- "The Harper of Erith"
References
- ^ a b Forshaw, Charles Frederick (1891). The Poets of Keighley, Bingley, Haworth and District. Bingley: Thornton and Pearson. p. 27.
- ^ Brontë, Patrick (1811). The Rural Minstrel: A Miscellany of Descriptive Poems. Bingley: Thornton and Pearson. p. 27.
- ^ a b Brontë, Patrick (1811). The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal. Bingley: Thornton and Pearson. p. 27.
- OCLC 1051140259.
- ^ OCLC 777957542.
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