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 [Illustration: Mrs Anne Killigrew _Painted by herself_]


                                  POEMS
                                  (1686)

                                    by
                             Mrs. Anne Killigrew




                           A Facsimile Reproduction
                              with an Introduction
                                      by
                                 Richard Morton




                              Gainesville, Florida
                        Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints
                                     1967


                        Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints
                             1605 N. W. 14th Avenue
                        Gainesville, Florida 32601, U.S.A.
                         Harry R. Warfel, General Editor




                              Reproduced from a Copy in
                              and with the permission of
                            The Alexander Turnbull Library

                            _Wellington, New Zealand_


                          L. C. Catalog Card Number: 67-10177


                              Manufactured in the U.S.A.




INTRODUCTION

Condemnation by a great poet has lasting impact, while the effects of
praise seldom endure; Shadwell remains MacFlecknoe in our minds,
Shaftesbury Achitophel, but Anne Killigrew, "A _Grace_ for Beauty, and
a _Muse_ for Wit," is virtually forgotten. Her book of verses is known
essentially because of John Dryden's commendatory Ode. Yet we may
justify a study of her own poems. Dryden's piece is not a generalised
encomium; obviously he had read her verses, and his analysis of her art
is firmly based. Our understanding of this famous poem, then, depends
to some degree on our knowledge of Anne Killigrew's output.[1] Her
verses deserve attention on their own merits--Dryden may well be
thought more gallant than scrupulous, but undeniably the poems have an
appealing wit, a picturesque imagination and a