Author: HOOLE (Samuel):
Title: Poems: Consisting of Modern Manners, Aurelia, The Curate, and Other Pieces Never Before Published. In Two Volumes.
Description: London: Printed for J. Dodsley..., 1790. 2 volumes in 1. 8vo, 183 x 104 mms., pp. [iv] v - vi, 191 [192 blank]; [ii] iii - iv, 196, contemporary calf, gilt rule on covers; lacks label, joints slightly worn, corners slightly crushed, but a good copy, with the 1804 autograph of John Hansard and his armorial bookplate on the front paste-down end-paper. James Hansard (1783–1841) was one of the sons of Luke Hansard (1752–1828), printer to the House of Commons. He and his brother Luke joined their father's printing business. The poet Samuel Hoole (1757/1758 - 1839) published his first poem, Modern Manners (1782), a verse novel imitating Christopher Anstey's New Bath Guide. In the Oxford DNB, David Hill Radcliffe notes that "While he was never so famous as his father, Samuel Hoole's contemporary literary reputation was considerable. In a 1783 letter to James Beattie, Scott of Amwell described him as a 'rising genius'; in a 1787 letter Anna Seward bestowed high praise on The Curate and described Hoole as a 'risen-genius'. In his Table Talk Samuel Rogers, who knew the poet when he was working as a tutor in London, described The Curate as 'by no means bad'. Hoole was a fine craftsman in several kinds of verse." He also had an interest in science and translated Antoni van Leeuwenhoek work, Select Works of Antony van Leeuwenhoek: Containing His Microscopical Discoveries in Many of the Works of Nature, in 1800.

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