"The Lunarian, A Tale, In Five Cantos"
| Title | "The Lunarian, A Tale, In Five Cantos" |
| Year for Search | 1819 |
| Authors | C[orfield], F[rederick] |
| Tertiary Authors | C., F. |
| Secondary Title | The Mélange, Containing The Lunarian, A Tale, In Five Cantos. Wonders, In Two Parts. The Picture Gallery, In Nine Cantos. And Various Other Pieces, In Verse |
| Pagination | 1-48 |
| Date Published | 1819 |
| Publisher | Ptd. by J. Poole |
| Place Published | Taunton, Eng. |
| Keywords | Male author |
| Annotation | Poem beginning with a visit from a prince of the moon to a wealthy Persian man in hopes of marrying his daughter. Much detail on the lavish wealth of the Persian, but Persia is presented as a absolute and cruel monarchy with women obedient. The eutopia on the moon is a limited monarchy with gender equality. Few clothes. High morality. Authors are fined for wasting their time, and the fines support the poor. The poem is followed by "Wonders, A Lunarian Poem, In Two Parts" (49-64), which is an example of a poem for which an author was fined. |
| Holding Institutions | L, PSt |
| Full Text | 1819 C[orfield,] F[rederick]. “The Lunarian, A Tale, In Five Cantos.” In his The Mélange, Containing The Lunarian, A Tale, In Five Cantos. Wonders, In Two Parts. The Picture Gallery, In Nine Cantos. And Various Other Pieces, In Verse (Taunton, Eng.: Ptd. by J. Poole, 1819), 1-48. L, PSt Poem beginning with a visit from a prince of the moon to a wealthy Persian man in hopes of marrying his daughter. Much detail on the lavish wealth of the Persian, but Persia is presented as a absolute and cruel monarchy with women obedient. The eutopia on the moon is a limited monarchy with gender equality. Few clothes. High morality. Authors are fined for wasting their time, and the fines support the poor. The poem is followed by “Wonders, A Lunarian Poem, In Two Parts” (49-64), which is an example of a poem for which an author was fined. |
