West, Gilbert (1703-1756)

Education, A Poem: In Two Cantos. Written in Imitation of the Style and Manner of Spenser's Fairy Queen.

London

Printed for R. Dodsley and sold by M. Cooper

1751

"And fettering on her Throne th' immortal Mind, / The Guidance of her Realm to Passions wild resign'd."

  They, O perverse and base Ingratitude!
  Despising the great Ends of Providence,
  For which above their Mates they were endued
  With Wealth, Authority, and Eminence,
  To the low Services of brutal Sense
  Abused the Means of Pleasures more refin'd,
  Of Knowledge, Virtue, and Beneficence,
  And fettering on her Throne th' immortal Mind,
The Guidance of her Realm to Passions wild resign'd.

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See printings in ECCO and ESTC (1751, 1755, 1758, 1763, 1765, 1766, 1770, 1775, 1782, 1795). Collected in Dodsley, Bell, Works of the English Poets, Knox, and Anderson's British Poets. Reprints listed at Spenser and the Tradition.

See Education, a Poem: in Two Cantos. Written in Imitation of the Style and Manner of Spenser’s Fairy Queen. By Gilbert West, Esq. (London: Printed for R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall; and sold by M. Cooper in Pater-Noster-Row, 1751). <Link to ECCO>

Text from A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. by Several Hands (London: Printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763).

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