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Collins (Mortimer)

Idyls and Rhymes.

Dublin: J. MC Clashan - W. S. Orr and Company, London - Stephen Barbet, Jun., Guernsey, 1845.,

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Author
Collins (Mortimer)
Publishers
Dublin: J. MC Clashan, W. S. Orr and Company, London, Stephen Barbet, Jun., Guernsey, 1845.
Keyword
Poetry Ireland IRISH LITERATURE

Description

First edition, 96 pp., original pink embossed cloth, spine slightly faded, lettered in gilt on upper cover, uncut and partly unopened, a very nice copy. The authorís first book. Collins, novelist and poet, was the son of a solicitor at Plymouth, and was for a time a teacher of mathematics at Queen Elizabethís College in Guernsey. ìIdyls and Rhymesî, his first book was written while he was living in Guernsey, and includes poems on Wordsworth, the Daffodil, the Duke of Wellington and Hartley Coleridge. He settled in Berkshire and adopted a literary life, and was a prolific author, writing largely for periodicals. He also wrote a good deal of occasional and humorous verse, and several novels, including Sweet Anne Page (1868), Two Plunges for a Pearl (1872), Mr. Carrington (1873), under the name of "R.T. Cotton," and A Fight with Fortune (1876).
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