The Poems of Sir Francis Hubert
The Poems of Sir Francis Hubert
EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION, COMMENTARIES, AND GLOSSARY by BERNARD MELLOR
Foreword by Edmund Blunden
Copyright Date: 1961
Published by: Hong Kong University Press
Pages: 404
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The Poems of Sir Francis Hubert
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It will be long, in spite of all the tireless searches of many inspired scholars, before the resources of English poetry of the seventeenth century are fully revealed. Voluminous poems and extensive lyrical miscellanies in manuscript still ...

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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-iv)
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. v-vi)
  3. FOREWORD
    FOREWORD (pp. vii-x)
    Edmund Blunden

    IT will be long, in spite of all the tireless searches of many inspired scholars, before the resources of English poetry of the seventeenth century are fully revealed. Voluminous poems and extensive lyrical miscellanies in manuscript still come to light, or remain perhaps a few years more in their nooks in great libraries. Works that attained publication in an age of poorish book production—for so the seventeenth century was in England—have many of them become extremely rare, and unless somebody with the energy of George Saintsbury catches sight of them and selects them for such a new chance...

  4. Introduction
    • I. The Life of Francis Hubert
      I. The Life of Francis Hubert (pp. xi-xlvi)

      FRANCIS Hubert was born in 1568 or 1569 into a family of well-connected landowners of Birchanger in Essex.¹ There is no clear record of his mother; the earliest reference to his father, Edward Hubert, or Huberd, finds him in 1576 as the deliverer² of the writings of Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and fearful of arrest at the hands of the Earl’s creditors.³

      Hubert the elder was wealthy arid ambitious. His fortune and his family’s rise in courtly life through superior connections of marriage, were largely due to association with the Earl and in some measure to the...

    • II. The Text
      II. The Text (pp. xlvii-xlviii)

      The text of Edward the Second is that of the author’s own edition of 1629; of Egypts Favorite it is that of the posthumous edition of 1631, the sole extant version. Descriptions of extant manuscript and printed versions of Edward the Second are given in the Commentary, on pages 280–2.

      I have emendated or supplied the punctuation where in the original the meaning is otherwise obscure or the flow of the verse hindered. Abbreviations are given their full forms: Ks (Kings), Pr: (Prince), wch (which), wth (with), ye (the), qd. (quoth), upō (upon), whō (whom), thē (then or them),...

  5. Edward the Second
    • Facsimile of the 1629 title-page
      Facsimile of the 1629 title-page (pp. 1-1)
    • Dedicatory letter
      Dedicatory letter (pp. 2-3)
      FRAN HUBERT
    • The Authors Preface
      The Authors Preface (pp. 4-4)
      F. H.
    • THE LIFE AND DEATH OF EDWARD the Second
      THE LIFE AND DEATH OF EDWARD the Second (pp. 5-169)
    • THE AUTHORS Noli peccare
      THE AUTHORS Noli peccare (pp. 170-172)
  6. Egypts Favorite
    • Facsimile of the 1631 title-page
      Facsimile of the 1631 title-page (pp. 173-174)
    • THE STATIONER to the READER
      THE STATIONER to the READER (pp. 175-175)
      L. C.
    • The Authors Invocation
      The Authors Invocation (pp. 176-176)
    • EGYPTS FAVORITE Joseph in Puteo OR The Unfortunate Brother
      EGYPTS FAVORITE Joseph in Puteo OR The Unfortunate Brother (pp. 177-277)
    • Facsimile of Hubert’s signature
      Facsimile of Hubert’s signature (pp. 278-278)
  7. Commentaries
    • Edward the Second: versions, authorship, date, sources, literary relations, notes on the text
      Edward the Second: versions, authorship, date, sources, literary relations, notes on the text (pp. 279-326)

      I have used ten versions of the poem in all: four in print and six in manuscript, none in the poet’s autograph; and I have also seen a late fragmentary manuscript.

      The first printed mention of an extant manuscript appears in the title-page to the 1721 edition, which is transcribed below on page 282, and the editor explains in a note that his copy was

      an Old Manuscript, which (as far as may be judg’d by the Character) seems to have been wrote about a Hundred Years ago.

      This manuscript, not identified, may have been the same as that referred...

    • Egypts Favorite: version, date, sources, literary relations, notes on the text
      Egypts Favorite: version, date, sources, literary relations, notes on the text (pp. 327-348)

      There appears to be but one version extant, the posthumous edition of 1631 printed directly from Hubert’s own manuscript handed over to the stationer Lawrence Chapman (see his preface to the poem on page 175).

      (a facsimile of the title-page is on page 173)

      A4, B-H8, I4. First four leaves of each gathering signed, I up to 3 only.

      Octavo.

      Catchwords both r. and v. throughout.

      B starts the text.

      Ornamental capital letters for the first word of the first line of each of the four cantos.

      No colophon.

      No pagination.

      128 pp.

      Pollard and Redgrave, Short-title Catalogue, 13903.

      There...

  8. GLOSSARY
    GLOSSARY (pp. 349-357)
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