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To Splendora

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Willa McClung Evans
Willa McClung Evans*
Affiliation:
Hunter College
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Extract

Splendora may have been unworthy of the praise or censure of her contemporaries; she may not deserve ours. Yet the series of poems addressed to her and here transcribed from contemporary manuscripts reveal that her cheeks bloomed as rosily, her eyes burned as brightly, her lips flamed with as brilliant a scarlet as those of Amarantha, Lucasta, Sacharissa, and other beauties of established literary distinction.

Type
Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , June 1939 , pp. 405 - 410
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1939

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References

1 The printed British Museum Catalogue of Harleian Manuscripts, iii, 448.

2 R. Cullis Goffin, The Life and Poems of William Cartwright (Cambridge University Press, 1918).

3 Goffin's Introduction, op. cit. includes these and other comments about Cartwright by the poet's contemporaries, also a brief life and some bibliographical notes.

4 In this transcription I am indebted to Professor Tucker Brooke for several important observations.