The Lyrics and Satires

The following bibliography does not pretend to be complete. It lists often neglected important sources of Anne's art and includes texts Anne Finch alluded to in central or important ways, texts which influenced hers, two texts which parodied one of hers, as well as those texts she translated, adapted and imitated.

• Aulutte, Robert. Mathurin Régnier: Les Satires. Paris: Sedes, 1983.
• Boileau. Oeuvres, ed., notes. Georges Mongrèdien. Paris: Garnier, 1961.
• Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivere. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1952, pp. 194-206 for a truthful detailed account of the female poets Pope, Gay and Arbuthnot piloried in Three Hours After Marriage.
• Bray, René. La Précosité et les Précieux. Paris: Nizet, 1968. Although the last third of this book takes us into the later eighteenth through to the twentieth century, the opening discussion of the phenomenon of 'précosité' itself and its manifestation in the literature of the later 17th century (especially by Frenchwomen) are of real interest in understanding Anne's outlook on pastoral both in the drama and satire.
• Bussy-Rabutin, Roger Comte de, "De Quelle maniere il faut ques les dames se conduisent pour ne pas perde de reputation en aimant," The Maximes d'Amour par le Comte de Bussy, reprinted in 1868 as a coda to two volumes containing Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules, suivie de La France Galante, nouvelle edition, containing also Maximes d'Amour and La Carte Georgraphique de la Cour, introd. Sainte-Beuve, 2 vols Paris Garnier, 1868.
• Chalmers, A. The Works of the English Poets. London 1810. Many volumes. Here one may find the verse of nowadays minor obscure male poets whom Anne alluded to, e.g, Francis Beaumont (Vol 6); Abraham Cowley (Vol 7); Charles Sackville, sxith Earl of Dorset; Wentworth Dillion, Earl of Roscommon (Vol 8); Nicolas Rowe (Vol 9 which contains his 'An Epistle to Flavia, on the Sight ofhte Two Pindaric Odes onthe Spleen and Vaneity. Written by a Lady her friend, the two women, Mrs Catherine Fleming and Anne Finch); John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham (Vol 10),
• Cotterell, Sir Charles, translator. Calprènede, Gauthier de Costes de La. Cassandra. London, 1667.
• Cowley, Abraham. Poems. London: Scolar Press, 1971.
• ———. The Civil War, Allan Pritchard. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973.
• Dacier, Anne LeFèvre. Les Poésies d'Anacreon et de Sapho, Traduites de Grec en Francois, avec des Remarque par Mademoiselle Lefevre [later Dacier]. A Lyon. Chez Horace Molin, vis-a-vis le grand college. 1696.
• Deshouliers, Anoinette du Ligier-de-la Garde. Oeuvres de Madame et Mlle Deshouliers, 3 vols. Paris, 1801.
• Ephelia. Female Poems on Several Occasions. London, 1679. Facsimile edition, with critical essay and apparatus by Maureen E. Mulvihill. Delmar, New York: Scholars' Facsimilies and Reprints, 1992. Mulvihill's recent candidate is Mary (Stuart née Villiers), Duchess of Richmond, whom Anne would have known and alludes to in her as yet unattributed poem, "Ye Lads and ye Lasses that live at Long-Leat". For further scholarship see general bibliography.
• Farnham, Fern. Madame Dacier: Scholar and Humanist. MOneterey, California: Angel Press, 1976.
• Killigrew, Anne. Poems, 1686, introd. Richard Norton. Gainesville, Florida: Scholars Facsimile, 1967. In spirit and tone these recall Anne's bitter anti-court poetry.
• Lachèvre, Frédéric. Les Derniers Libertins in Le Libertinage au XVII Siècle. Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, 1924.
• Longepierre, Hilaire-Bernard de Requeleyne de Longepierre, Les Idlles de Bion et de Moscus. Traduites de Grec en Vers Francois. Avec des Remarques, Paris, 1686.
• Lord, George de F., gen ed. Poems on Affairs of State, 1660-1714. 8 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963- While there is much here of relevance to Anne, see especially for a neglected context for her satires 'Tunbridge Satires', Vol 5 ('Fopland'), pp. 346-385. Poems by William Shippen who belonged to Nicholas Rowe's group, wrote a poem to Anne (placed in the Folger MS) and whose poetry appears in Gilden's 1701 New Miscellany are to be found in Volume 6, 'Moderation Display'd' and 'Faction Display'd', pp. 19-42, 649-673. He was a moderate Jacobite.
• Macdonald, Hugh, ed., introd. A Journal from Parnassus, now printed from a manuscript circa1688. London: P. J. Dobell, 1937. This is important for understanding the political and immediate poetical context for 'Sessions of the Poets' poems, which Anne imitated in one of her poems and alluded to in others.
• Maldeghem, Philippe de. Le Petrarque en Rime Francoise avec Ses Commentaries, traduict par Philippe de Maldeghem, Seigneur de Leyschot. Douay: Chez Francois Fabry, Libraire iure, 1666.
• Miscellany Poems, The Third Part. London: Tonson 1710. "Upon a Fart" is print on p. 190.
• Montaigne, Michel de, "Des Cannibals", Essais, ed. P. Villey. Paris, 1965.
• O'Neill, John and Cameron Nickels. "Upon the Attribution of 'Upon a A Fart'", Early American Literature, 14, 1979, pp. 143-148. O'Neill and Nickels dispute the attribution of "Upon a Fart" to William Byrde.
• Pieretti, Marie-Pascale, "Women Writers and Translation in 18th-century France," Ph.D. Diss. New York University, 1998.
• Poems on Affairs of State, from 1640 to this Present Year, 1704. London, 1704. This contains a version of Finch's "A Sign" followed by "Upon a Fart".
• Pope, Alexander, John Gay and John Arbuthnot. Three Hours After Marriage, from Burlesque Plays of the Eighteenth Century, ed. Simon Trussler. London: Oxford University Press, 1969. This plays contains a burlesque of Anne's Pindarick Poem upon the late Hurrycane, "You have obey'd, you Winds that must fullfill", Annotated Chronology No. 107.
• Prior, Matthew. Literary Works, ed. H. Bunker Wright and M. Spears. 2 Vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961. Important for "Solomon on the Vanity of the World" and "Alma: or, The Progress of the Mind'"; see Vol i, pp. 307-385, 470-518.
• Régnier, Mathurin. Les Satyres, et autres oeuvres du Sieur Mathurin Régnier. Augmenté de diverses pièces cy-devant non imprimées. Paris, 1667.
• ———. Bibliographie de Mathurin Régnier, par Henri Chervier. Paris: Rouquette, 1884.
• ———. Oeuvres Complètes, ed. Gabriel Raibaciel Paris: Didier, 1958.
• Rochester, Earl of, John Wilmot. The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. David M. Vieth. New Haven: Yale, 1968.
• Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, Earl of. The [Complete] Poetrical Works. Glasgow, 1749.
• Rowe, Elizabeth Singer. The Poetry of Elizabeth Singer Rowe, ed, introd. Madeleine Forell Marshall. Studies in Women in Religion, Vol. 25. Ontario: Edwin Mellen Press, 1987. While scholars study the relationship between Anne's poetry and Aphra Behn's, Katherine Philips', and Anne Killigrew's, they neglect this woman's work. Elizabeth Rowe was a good friend to Anne Finch, to her niece, Frances Thynne Seymour ('the gentle Hertford); Rowe was part of Prior's circle in her early days (there was a romance), and she is alluded to in Anne's fable referring to those poets of her day who are unjustly neglected. Probably the problem is the perspective one is forced to take on Rowe: fideistic and sentimental religion. Marshall reprints Rowe's poems to Arabella Marrow (whom Anne wrote to), on the death of Mrs Thynne, in praise of Lady Worseley (Francis Finch, Anne's Ephelia's daughter), one (possibly) to Anne's husband (as 'Mirtillo'), to 'Cleone' and 'Clorinda' (using the same pseudonyms for the same women Anne and Heneage knew well), pp. 71-72, 106-7, 153-54, 156-59,
• ———. Poems on Several Occasions. Written by Philomela. London: Printed for John Dunton, 1696. See pp. 14-15 Rowe's poem 'To My Lady Carteret', the same young woman Anne wrote about in the first poem which appears in the Wellesley manuscript.
• ———. Friendship in Death, ed., introd. Josephi Grieder. New York: Garland, 1972.
• Stechner, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Piety. Bern, Switzerland: Lang, 1973.
• Tollet, Elizabeth. Poems on Several Occasions. London, 1656. Admittedly, the influence here runs the other way: Tollet wrote a poem celebrating Anne's art.
• Varney, J. Le Petrarquisme en France au XVIe siècle. (1909: rpt. Geneve: Slatkine, 1969.
• Vianey, J. Les Poètes du XVIe siècle: Chefs d'Oeuvre du Mathurin Rénier. Paris: libarrie Hater, n.d.
• Waller, A. W. Works of Matthew Prior. Cambridge, 1907. The second volume contains a reproduction of Longleat mansucripts.
• Wilson, Harold. The Court Wits of the Restoration. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1948.
• Wright, H. Bunker. 'Matthew Prior and Elizabeth Rowe', Philological Quarterly, 24 (19450, pp. 72-91.
• Yarnow, P. J. The Seventeenth Century: A Literary History of France. London: Benn, 1967.