68-669: Trumpington Meadows Country Park is a 58 hectare nature reserve in Trumpington in Cambridgeshire . It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire . This site has flower meadows, woodland, ponds, and is adjacent to the River Cam and Byron's Pool , where Lord Byron once swam. Fauna include otters , brown hares , muntjac deer , skylarks , lapwings , yellowhammers and meadow pipits . There
136-665: A "Pastoral Duet between Robert Montgomery and Thomas Haynes Bayly", published in Fraser's Magazine : Imitative works were now being extended into series as their authors sought to outdo their predecessors. A further anonymous collection of letters in Anstey measure appeared as A Summer in Bath in 1822, but quoting Bayly at the start by way of "Advertisement". However, Thomas Moore 's The Fudge Family in Paris (1818) marked an original departure and provided
204-570: A French Fudge turns the tables by visiting the English capital and describing life there to his exiled relative in France. At the decade's end, an inhabitant of Bath, refusing to be dazzled by the recent tourist preference for capital cities, called the strayed brood of imitators to heel with Eight Letters from Bath by the Fidget Family (Bath, 1830) in impeccable Anstey measure. Nor was it until 1835 that
272-629: A Methodist imposter with the expressive name of Roger , the slang meaning of which is sexual intercourse, while in dialect it refers to a tricky person. The broad 18th century humour of the Guide inevitably met with criticism in some quarters. While the parodies and allusions to Milton, Dryden and the Classical authors were well received, the perversion of Methodist terminology in Prudence's account of her seduction at least caused controversy. To dispel some of this,
340-517: A Week in Bath in a doggerel address in 1811. That poem was followed a few years later by two linked works: Rough Sketches of Bath by Q in the Corner (Bath 1817), described by a later critic as "little else than clever imitations of Anstey", and by Epistles from Bath, or Q’s letters to his Yorkshire relations (1817). Though these were published anonymously at the time, Thomas Haynes Bayly eventually identified himself as "Q" (and his target as Anstey) in
408-515: A best-seller, but in succeeding editions the main emphasis was redirected to satire of the Prince Regent , who had favoured Brighton as a resort. With that came an alteration of the poem's title to The New Brighton Guide; Involving a Complete, Authentic, and Honourable Solution of the Recent Mysteries of Carlton House that promised "Momentous Alterations and Additions". The work consisted of
476-471: A fellow of his college in 1745 but the degree of M.A. was withheld from him in 1749 owing to his defiance of the university authorities and the offence caused by an address that is said to have begun "Doctors without doctrine, artless masters of arts, and bachelors more worthy of the rod than the laurel..." He joined the Middle Temple in 1746, but was not called to the bar . In 1754, having succeeded to
544-413: A long public life there. His poem, The New Bath Guide , brought him to fame and began an easy satirical fashion that was influential throughout the second half of the 18th century. Later he wrote An Electoral Ball , another burlesque of Bath society that allowed him to develop and update certain themes in his earlier work. Among his Latin writing were translations and summaries based on both these poems; he
612-466: A more successful model for satirical imitation. Moore's work brought Anstey's manner up to date and widened its scope. Four family members visit the completely different setting of Paris after the Bourbon restoration . Their various characters and points of view are reflected in more varied verse measures, in which the anapaestics of the family’s younger generation contrast with the iambics of their elders, and
680-796: A nearby town for his imitation, The Margate new guide; or memoirs of five families out of six Who, in Town discontent with a good Situation, Make Margate the Place of their Summer Migration (1799). It too deployed Anstey's almost obligatory jogtrot rhythm in what a contemporary review summed up as "ten letters, humorously describing in lively verse the usual diversions of that place and the company who resort to it." Another reviewer, however, found it poorer by comparison with The New Bath Guide . Several more authors had rushed in where Anstey had feared to tread and adapted his style, and even his characters, to political themes. They include Ralph Broome 's The Letters of Simkin
748-430: A period of depression aggravated by ill health after the death of a beloved sister in 1760, Anstey was advised to take the waters at the fashionable spa of Bath . Impressed by the place, he returned annually and decided to settle there permanently in 1770, his home being at No. 4 Royal Crescent for the next thirty-five years. In 1766, he achieved fame following the publication of The New Bath Guide: or Memoirs of
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#1732858419006816-402: A rasher of bacon. The inventiveness of the rhymes and the puns on the ridiculous names given to the characters adds further humour here. Such naming, an aspect of the work which was widely admired, derives from theatrical practice at the time and gives a clue to the person's character, but in the case of the main protagonists there is added irony too. Their Blunderhead surname not only sums up
884-496: A rubbing of the brass in 'pride of place' in his parents' Oxford home. The west tower has a ring of eight bells, all cast and hung in 1957 by John Taylor & Co of Loughborough . The church has also a sanctus bell cast at Bury St Edmunds in about 1450. Cambridge City Council's 2006 Local Plan provided for the release of an extensive area of Green Belt land around Trumpington for new housing and associated community facilities. Major new developments are being constructed on
952-473: A satirical account of the opening ball at the New Assembly Rooms in 1771. The convoluted title of this occasional piece was "The Ridotto of Bath, a Panegyrick written by a Gentleman, resident in that City: Being an Epistle from Timothy Screw, Under Server to Messrs Kuhf and Fitzwater, to his brother Henry, Waiter at Almack's" and was dependent on Anstey's work in several particulars. Another close imitation
1020-708: A series of epistles – moral, sentimental, serious and didactic – between the Royal Pavilion and the Regent’s associated London residences. In the following year an anonymous work featured the alternative health resort of Ramsgate in The Sea-Side, a Poem, in Familiar Epistles from Mr Simkin Slenderwit Summerising at Ramsgate, to His Dear Mother in Town (1797). Richard Scrafton Sharpe (c. 1780 -1852) chose
1088-762: A series of poetical epistles by Benjamin Blunderhead Esquire to his mother in Derbyshire (1812) and by William Henry Halpin in The Cheltenham Mailbag: or letters from Gloucestershire, edited by Peter Quince the Younger (1820). Meanwhile Bath was again becoming fashionable as a spa town, a development underlined by the arrival of Queen Charlotte in 1817, leading a royal party. The place had been newly celebrated already in John Cam Hobhouse 's The Wonders of
1156-493: Is a procession of the fashionable headed by a monkey and a Momus clown with, in leash, the fashionable crowd they lead by the nose. Commenting on the appearance of the Guide, published far away in Cambridge on the other side of the country by an unknown author, his son later marvelled that "It was hardly possible that a work of this description...could have made its appearance under circumstances of greater disadvantage." The title
1224-471: Is access from Grantchester Road. 52°10′12″N 0°06′11″E / 52.17°N 0.103°E / 52.17; 0.103 Trumpington Trumpington is a village to the south of Cambridge , in the Cambridge district, in the county of Cambridgeshire , England. The village is an electoral ward of the City of Cambridge and a ward of South Cambridgeshire District Council. The 2011 Census recorded
1292-407: Is very unusual, and can only have belonged to a member of a rich aristocratic family. It is thought that the grave must have been associated with a hitherto unknown Anglo-Saxon settlement near the site, perhaps that of a monastic community. The Domesday Book of 1086 records a community of 33 peasants. The population had risen to 100 by the late 13th century. The village remained sizeable throughout
1360-567: The Glebe Farm and Clay Farm sites to the south and east of the village, and on Trumpington Meadows to the southwest. In 2017 a new civil parish of South Trumpington was created, which will include some of the most southerly part of the new Trumpington Meadows development. It comprises the land formerly in the Haslingfield parish of South Cambridgeshire that lies east of the River Cam between
1428-478: The feast of St Peter's Chains (1 August). The feast was still held in the 19th century though it was transferred to 28–30 June, and became known for the rowdiness and drunkenness of its many visitors. It was reduced to only one day (29 June) in 1882 and was still held in the 1930s. The earliest parts of the Church of England parish church of Saints Mary and Michael are late 12th- or early 13th-century. The chancel
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#17328584190061496-504: The monumental brass of Sir Roger de Trumpington, a crusader knight bearing the date 1289; it is said to be the second oldest brass in England. The brass of Sir Roger as seen through the thoughtful eyes of a young Royal Air Force Spitfire pilot who visited the church in 1941 is movingly described by Squadron Leader Guy Mayfield, then chaplain of RAF Station Duxford , in his diary. It is noted by Anthony Sattin that T. E. Lawrence hung
1564-608: The Anstey Hall site adjoining Maris Lane in Trumpington. Here the PBI developed new plants, notably potatoes called Maris Piper and Maris Peer , a barley called Maris Otter , and a wheat called Maris Widgeon . These are now in use worldwide. The PBI was split up and privatised in 1987. In 1990 the PBI moved to Colney , near Norwich , but the reference to the Maris Lane site survives in
1632-560: The B__n__r__d Family in a series of Poetical Epistles , which went through some twenty editions before 1800. The work was enthusiastically praised for its gently satirical humour by such literary figures as Horace Walpole and Thomas Gray . Later Anstey composed a work in the same vein, An Election Ball, in Poetical Letters from Mr Inkle at Bath to his Wife at Gloucester , published in 1776. The theme had been suggested to him at
1700-643: The Countess of B , mentioned in The Monthly Review for May 1767. Although the majority of such works lacked the charm of novelty, and often attracted scornful reviews, George Dallas at least made his name with an exotic adaptation. This was The India Guide, or Journal of a Voyage to the East Indies in the Year 1780: In a Poetical Epistle to Her Mother by Emily Brittle (Calcutta 1785), which he dedicated to Anstey. As
1768-483: The Guide was expanded to outright farce in An Election Ball and had an immediate effect. In Samuel Hoare's conversation piece portrait of him (see above), his daughter is shown trying to draw his attention to the extravagant doll in her hand, in reality the kind of lay figure sent from Paris to guide dressmakers in the latest styles. Though she seems to distract him from composition, she is also serving as muse, for
1836-606: The Middle Ages and by 1801 there were 494 residents. By the time the parish was dissolved there were about 1,200 inhabitants. Until the 20th century Trumpington was an agricultural village with cattle and sheep as well as crops. Trumpington's association with agriculture was extended in 1955, when the Plant Breeding Institute (PBI) – founded in 1912 as part of the University of Cambridge 's School of Agriculture – moved to
1904-460: The Second, poetic recorder of all the proceedings upon the trial of Warren Hastings (London 1789); followed by The New Parliamentary Register in a series of poetical epistles (1791), which was dedicated to Anstey and featured Simkin as a newly elected Member of Parliament . The trend of adaptations of Anstey’s manner to other themes extended into the nineteenth century. In the political sphere there
1972-442: The beetle that flies in the evening, to a Roman, I guess, would have appeared too mean an object for poetry." And further on he enquires, "Might not the English characters here be romanized? Virgil is just as good as Milton, and Cæsar as Cromwell." Gray's stance was traditionalist and did not take account of the way Vincent Bourne 's poems had already demonstrated how Latin could be adapted to express contemporary reality. Preferring
2040-563: The board of governors of Bath Hospital , for whom he wrote effective fund-raising poems. Later he supported the work of Hannah More , in whose series of Cheap Repository Tracts appeared his long ballad, "The Farmer's Daughter, a poetical tale" (1795). His final Latin poem, the Alcaic stanzas addressed to Edward Jenner on his work on inoculation (1803), demonstrated the persistence of his humanitarian interests. Anstey's normally strong constitution gave way early in 1805. He died on 3 August, and
2108-458: The commonweal. Instead he made his subject matter the familiar follies of the landed squirearchy in a poem that, "while it includes a number of particular and topical Bath references to give the flavour of the place and time, has sufficient scope and is written from enough of a detached viewpoint to make its critique of manners and morals of enduring application." The work's eventual frontispiece clarifies Anstey’s good-natured aim. Pictured there
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2176-520: The crocodile on the wall of the Cavendish Laboratory . The memorial was dedicated on Sunday 11 December 1921 to commemorate 36 Trumpington men who died in the First World War . The Second World War claimed eight more local men; their names were added by David Kindersley , a pupil of Gill. In 1314, the lord of the manor, Giles of Trumpington, was given permission to hold a three-day fair on
2244-576: The current Cambridge city council boundary and the M11. Trumpington is represented by three city councillors on Cambridge City Council, three district councillors on South Cambridgeshire District Council and three councillors on Cambridge County Council. Christopher Anstey Christopher Anstey (31 October 1724 – 3 August 1805) was an English poet who also wrote in Latin . After a period managing his family's estates, he moved permanently to Bath and died after
2312-449: The doll's fantastic hairstyle is just such as, judging from the pattern of lines on his manuscript, Anstey went on to describe in the poem: "To a cap like a bat / (Which was once my cravat) / Part gracefully patted and pinn'd is, / Part stuck upon gauze/ Resembles mackaws/ And all the fine birds of the Indies." It was this episode too, featuring Madge Inkle as she confects a hair ornament from
2380-586: The first Fudge saga, the influence of Anstey is less evident", the story line of the second is much more derivative. In any case, writers seem to have decided by now that enough was enough and no further imitations of Anstey followed. A later tribute came from John Betjeman in 1973. As a trustee of the Bath Preservation Trust since the 1940s, he protested the depredations of philistine developers in "The Newest Bath Guide", quoting from and addressing Anstey. Its final couplet demonstrates how much Betjeman
2448-540: The harassed and impecunious Moore could himself get round, much too late, to writing his own sequel, The Fudges in England . That too was set, according to its preface, in "a well-known fashionable watering place". But though the work sold well, the critical response was muted. "Mr Moore’s poetical rabies is incurable" commented the reviewer of The Dublin University Magazine . A modern judgment, comparing Moore's original work and its sequel, finds that while "in
2516-588: The introductory lines were signed C. A. et W. H. R. This was subsequently reprinted in Venice in 1794 and from there made its way into Alessandro Torri's multilingual anthology of translations of the Elegy, published in Verona in 1817. In later years Anstey went on to translate himself. First there was his version of "Letter XIV" from The New Bath Guide , that was only included in the posthumous collected edition of his work. This
2584-423: The latter's approach, for the most part, Anstey's version tries to remain faithful to Gray's text and certainly retains the historical English names rather than making Roman substitutes. It was published anonymously in 1762 and was later to appear in the 1768 and 1775 Irish editions of Gray's poems, along with an Italian and two other Latin versions of the Elegy. In 1778 there appeared an emended translation in which
2652-525: The literary gatherings of the Batheaston Literary Circle which he had been attending and to the last of whose regular anthologies he contributed. Other suggested themes occasioned published works of some length, but the connection did his reputation more damage than otherwise and was ended with the death of the coterie's patroness, Anna, Lady Miller , in 1781. In the years that followed, he thought of collecting his poems for general publication but
2720-524: The misadventures of the three naïve children of a Northern squire, as reported by them over the course of fifteen letters to friends and parents, and incidentally give a comic picture of life in the spa. In a far departure from the Augustan manner common until then, the style is colloquial and written in loose anapaestic tetrameters , later to be characterised as the "Anstey measure" or "Bath-guide verse". 'Tis this that provokes Mrs.SHENKIN Ap-LEEK To dine at
2788-664: The moment he had finished the Bath Guide", but others since have seen more to respect. Gray described the Guide as having "a new and original kind of humour", although in terms of the Classical models of his time it could be described as satire on the good-natured Horatian model. The alternative sharp Juvenilian style of the recently deceased satirist Charles Churchill was not for him. Indeed, in an unfinished poem preserved by his son, he had declared himself Unskill'd in flattery's softer arts, Unfit for satire's pointed darts, Else would my faithful muse reveal What wights bestride
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2856-439: The names of plants. Anstey Hall is a Grade I listed, former country house built c. 1700 within its own parkland. Once owned by writer and poet Christopher Anstey and later by the polymath Robert Leslie Ellis , it was leased to the PBI for many years. It is now used for weddings, parties, corporate events and meetings. The Trumpington War Memorial was designed and carved by Eric Gill , who also designed and carved
2924-523: The new fad of sea-bathing replaced the hot springs at Bath, the pseudonymous Anthony Pasquin now found the success that eluded him with his Postscript to the New Bath Guide by bringing Anstey’s title up to date with The new Brighton guide, or companion for young ladies and gentlemen to all the watering-places in Great Britain: with notes, historical, moral, and personal (1796). It immediately became
2992-551: The ord'nary twice in a week, Tho' at home she might get a good dinner in comfort, Nor pay such a cursed extravagant sum for't: But then her acquaintance would never have known Mrs.SHENKIN AP-LEEK had acquir'd a "bon ton"; Ne'er shewn how in taste the AP-LEEKS can excel The Duchess of TRUFFLES, and Lady MORELL; Had ne'er been ador'd by Sir PYE MACARONI, And Count VERMICELLI, his intimate crony; Both men of such taste, their opinions are taken From an ortolan down to
3060-458: The parish had a population of 1183. The Cambridge Local Plan 2006 took land around the village out of the green belt and paved the way for an urban extension due for completion in 2023. A map of the enlarge village is available in The Trumpet , a community magazine produced by the parish church. There is evidence of Iron Age and Roman settlements in Trumpington, near the River Cam ford by
3128-590: The politics treated are those that followed the Congress of Vienna . Just as important for the more straight-laced audience of the time, the love interest provided by Biddy Fudge and her suitor replaces with farcical social satire the coarseness once deplored in Anstey's treatment of Prudence Blunderhead. Later imitations were to transfer relatives of the Fudge family to the Scottish and American capitals and to Ireland (1822). Then
3196-553: The project was only finally completed by his son John in 1808. Although Anstey declared himself uninterested in public office, he had served as High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire for 1770–71, on the eve of his move to Bath. Once there, he busied himself in various philanthropic ventures, such as supporting the scheme for the support of the poor on behalf of which the Batheaston Circle's Poetical Amusements were sold. In addition he served between 1781 and 1795 on
3264-513: The prosperous family estates (including Anstey Hall in Trumpington ), Anstey withdrew from the university. Two years later, he married Ann Calvert (1732–1812), daughter of Felix Calvert and the sister of his friend John Calvert of Albury Hall , Hertfordshire. For a considerable time Anstey lived the life of a country squire, cultivating letters as well as his estates, but publishing little of any note for many years. His family grew to include thirteen children, eight of whom survived him. Following
3332-475: The purloined tail feathers of the rooster, that Anstey's friend Coplestone Warre Bampfylde chose as the first scene to illustrate in An Election Ball . Arriving too late for inclusion in the revised edition of 1776, they were first used instead in the Latin epistle that Anstey addressed to Bampfylde, including mention of all the scenes the artist had chosen to picture. Anstey was an innovator in more ways than one. He
3400-450: The resting place of Henry Fawcett , the blind academic and politician who, as Postmaster General (1880–84), introduced parcel post, postal orders and other innovations. The local primary school is named Fawcett School after him. John Venn , originator of the Venn diagram , is buried in the church's extension graveyard, at the junction of Shelford Road and Hauxton Road. The church also contains
3468-534: The road to Grantchester, and a Roman cemetery. An Anglo-Saxon cemetery has also been found nearby at Dam Hill. In 2012 archaeologists working on the Trumpington Meadows site discovered a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon bed burial for a young woman aged about 16 years old, in a field on the outskirts of the village. The occupant of the grave had been buried on a wooden bed, and had an ornate gold pectoral cross inlaid with garnets on her breast. The jewelled gold cross
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#17328584190063536-452: The schoolroom about it. Anstey was principally known for his long epistolary poem , The New Bath Guide . He never quite recaptured the success of that work, which was continuously in print throughout his lifetime, although he returned to humorous depiction of the same Bath types in such works as An Election Ball and "The Decayed Macaroni". Finding little to admire in such sequels, Horace Walpole judged that Anstey "ought to have shot himself
3604-618: The second edition contained an epilogue which added considerably to the book's length but light-heartedly tried to meet some of the objections. Nevertheless, a comment at the start of the more prudish 19th century concerning "those violations of decency which disgust us in the New Bath Guide" indicates that they were not forgotten. When Anstey returned to a burlesque of Bath society a decade later in An Electoral Ball , it allowed him to embroider on some of his earlier themes. Thus Simkin's shocked account of female hairdressing in "Letter XII" of
3672-513: The time, and published anonymously in 1762. This was Eligia Scripta in Coemeterio Rustico Latine reddita , a version of Thomas Gray 's already celebrated " Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard " of 1751, on which they worked in consultation with the author himself. Commenting on the draft sent him, Gray remarked that "Every language has its idiom, not only of words and phrases, but of customs and manners, which cannot be represented in
3740-479: The tongue of another nation, especially of a nation so distant in time and place, without constraint and difficulty; of this sort, in the present instance, are the curfew bell, the Gothic Church, with its monuments, organs and anthems, the texts of Scripture, &c. There are certain images, which, though drawn from common nature, and every where obvious, yet strike us as foreign to the turn and genius of Latin verse;
3808-522: The town in general by its use of local references. Much later there came another derivative reference to the Guide itself in John Williams ' A Postscript to the New Bath Guide by Anthony Pasquin (1790). But other health resorts than Bath were coming into vogue, and to these Anstey's manner began to be applied by other authors, one of the earliest being the Tunbridge Epistles from Lady Margaret to
3876-400: The various meanings of the word 'blunder' in their behaviour but has the overtones of stupidity contained in the colloquial 'dunderhead' as well. This is further emphasised in the son's first name, Simkin, which is a dialect expression denoting a simpleton. The behaviour of his sister Prudence, on the other hand, is at variance with her name. She most imprudently allows herself to be seduced by
3944-460: The ward's population as 8,034. The village was a separate parish from the Anglo-Saxon era until the 20th century. In 1912 all of the land north of Long Road was transferred to Cambridge, and on 1 April 1934 most of the remaining land, including all of the village, was also given over to Cambridge. Only 382 acres (155 ha), almost uninhabited, were transferred to Haslingfield parish. In 1931
4012-568: The way that Anstey's social comedy had captured the general imagination is given by the large number of imitations that followed its publication. They were of several kinds, however, and at first were directly dependent on The New Bath Guide for their context, the earliest being the complimentary Poetical Epistles to the author of the New Bath Guide (London, 1767). It was followed by a youthful imitation of Anstey's manner by Richard Brinsley Sheridan , first published in The Bath Chronicle as
4080-511: Was George Watson-Taylor 's The Cross-Bath Guide, being the Correspondence of a Respectable Family upon the subject of a late unexpected Dispensation of Honours (1815), although a reviewer found that "the imitation is not quite the equal, in point of wit, to the original" model by Anstey. There were also surveys of newly developing resort towns: by Barbara Hofland in A Season in Harrogate, in
4148-453: Was The Register of Folly, or characters and incidents at Bath , containing twelve poetical epistles 'by an invalid' (London 1773). Anstey's An Election Ball (1776) and its reporting in three letters is not only an imitation of his own manner in the New Bath Guide but takes further Sheridan's later ballroom satire. Created initially for the amusement of the Batheaston set, it also flattered
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#17328584190064216-442: Was a 'humorous and whimsical' tour de force with both internal and end-rhymes, exactly fitting the spirit of the original. Secondly, there was the résumé of the themes in his later The Election Ball in a 1777 Latin epistle to its would-be illustrator Coplestone Warre Bampfylde , of which an English adaptation, 'translated and addressed to the ladies', appeared separately in the same year. Anstey's other translation during that time
4284-620: Was also joint author of one of the earliest Latin translations of Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard , which went through several editions both in England and abroad. Anstey was the third child and only son of the Rev. Dr. Christopher Anstey, the rector of Brinkley in Cambridgeshire, and his wife Mary Thompson, born on 31 October 1724 in Trumpington . He was educated at Eton College and King's College , Cambridge, where he distinguished himself for his Latin verses. He became
4352-434: Was an added hindrance at first, since the third edition of the official city guide, now titled The New Bath Guide or useful pocket companion , had been published in 1765, the year before Anstey's work. Though it provided a useful point of reference to readers, repeated editions of the pocket companion, 'corrected and much enlarged', continued to sow confusion for as long as the two books continued to appear. The Guide relates
4420-512: Was buried at St. Swithin's Church in Walcot, Bath . Later a white marble memorial tablet was placed in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. Poetry in Latin makes up only a quarter of Anstey's published output, but his poetical career both began and ended with it. His first major work was a translation undertaken in collaboration with his friend William Hayward Roberts , also a Fellow at King's College at
4488-420: Was of the fables of John Gay , undertaken originally for the guidance of his sons, whom he was preparing for entrance into Eton. This was published anonymously in a badly edited state, then subsequently revised for a new edition in 1798. However, reviewers complained of its rigid metres and 'diffusion extended into weakness' as being badly fitted to the sprightly octosyllabics of Gay's original. It had too much of
4556-457: Was rebuilt late in the 13th century. The rest of the church, including the nave , clerestory , aisles, chapels, porches and upper part of the tower was rebuilt about 1330. The church was restored several times in the 19th century, notably in 1858 and 1876–77 under the direction of the Gothic Revival architect William Butterfield . The church is a Grade I listed building . The church is
4624-421: Was the first to make tourism a poetic subject since the pilgrimage depicted by Thomas Chaucer in his Canterbury Tales . The epistolary mode which Anstey chose for his characters allowed their different voices to be distinguished in the same way as Chaucer's were through their narratives. But at the same time, the relaxed anapaestic measure united within it the work's impressionistic diversity. Added evidence of
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