[Rarebooks] OFFER: RICHARD BAXTER: POETICAL FRAGMENTS.

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BAXTER, RICHARD:  POETICAL FRAGMENTS: HEART-IMPLOYMENT WITH GOD AND IT 
SELF. The concordant discord of a broken-healed heart. Sorrowing-rejoicing, 
fearing-hoping, dying-living. Written partly for himself, and partly for 
near friends in sickness, and other deep affliction. ... London, Printed 
for T. Parkhurst ...: 3d ed. 1699. [6] 162, [12] Pp. Page 160 numbered 190. 
"A supplement to the Poetical fragments": p. 105-158. contain poetry by 
Baxter never published before. This is the only edition other than the 
First edition to do so. Baxter was a paradigm of a convinced evangelist who 
labored through passion and thought to convey his view of religion and the 
resulting pious behavior to all. His preaching and his writing was and 
remains a powerful force in the English speaking world."The Saints' Ever 
Lasting Rest", remains his most famous work. He is remembered now as one of 
the founding fathers of nonconformity and for his devotional works. In his 
epistle to the reader, the first 6 pages of the book, he states his poetic 
credo that passion, and not only reason must fill man's works. He avers the 
necessary importance of words and of music [meaning both music and the 
music of language] and admits his grave doubts about his own gifts as a 
poet. He admits that he is not excellent but he says: "A fidler may serve 
at a country wedding: such cannot attain to the higher sort." [and places 
himself with such a fiddler]. He lists his contemporaries and others who 
have fulfilled his requirements for the "higher sort " and is unusual, in 
his period in including a woman.  They are Abraham Cowly, Mr. Woodford, 
Katherine Philips, George Withers, Quarles, Fulk Grevil, George Herbert and 
George Sandys.[all naming and spelling is Baxter's]. CBEL, I, 695, 
"Poetical fragments 1699(includes Additions to the poetical fragments 
1700)." Noting only this among Baxter's literary works. Lowndes I, 128 
Noting only the first edition of 1680 and the reprint of 1821. Wing B1351 
Arber's Term Cat. III 166;  OCLC 8 Locs.  [NYP, EMU, UIU, KTS, BHA, CGU, 
NOC, PUL]. No copy has been at auction since 1950. A Very Good copy in the 
original plain, calf boards, with an old, but renewed, plain, calf spine, 
old signatures of 18th century owners, Ann Salter and Rebekah Harris. $1000.00

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