Boston prize poems and other specimens of dramatic poetry.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Boston : J.T. Buckingham, 1824 (Cambridge [Mass.] : Hilliard & Metcalf) |
| Description | iv, [9]-130 p. ; 19 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Gale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926 |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Paine, Robert Treat, 1773-1811. |
| Other author/creator | Sprague, Charles, 1791-1875. |
| Other author/creator | Wells, Thomas. |
| Other author/creator | Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1794. |
| Other author/creator | Garrick, David, 1717-1779. |
| Other author/creator | Byron, George Gordon, Baron, 1788-1824. |
| Other author/creator | Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. |
| Other author/creator | Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. |
| Other author/creator | Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832. |
| Series | Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926 Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. |
| Partial contents | Prize ode / Charles Sprague -- Metrical pieces [unsuccessful entries] -- Prize poems -- Prologues, odes &c., English. |
| Local note | Arts and Literature. |
| Local note | 2011AF12900. |
| General note | Poems submitted in 1823 for a prize offered by the manager of the Boston Theatre requesting an ode in honor of Shakespeare. Includes the prize-winning contribution by Charles Sprague and similar "prize poems" written by Boston authors for various openings of dramatic theaters in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and New Orleans, along with a selection of related dramatic prologues and odes by eighteenth and nineteenth century British writers. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society. |
| General note | Sabin no. 6758. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, 2012. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |