Author: [WHITEHEAD (William)]:
Title: The Goat's Beard. A Fable.
Description: London: Printed for J. Dodsley..., 1777. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 260 x 198 mms., pp. 40, recent boards. A good copy. Whitehead (1715 - 1785) translated Pope's An Essay on Man into Latin verse, and Pope was pleased with the result. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1757. The poem alludes to one of the fables of Phaedre (and,presumably, the plant called "Goatsbeards," tragopogon)., in which the male goats complain to Jupiter that female goats have been allowed to have beards. There are also contemporary mentions of or allusions to David Garrick, Margaret de Waldemar, and various other historical females, and the issue is traditional roles and characteristics associated with the two sexes. The verse is mildly amusing.

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