Francis Noel Clark Mundy studied under Joseph Warton at Winchester College before entering New College Oxford in 1757 (created M.A. 1761). He afterwards resided on his estate at Markeaton, Derbyshire and was a member of the Litchfield coterie of poets. Anna Seward contributed to his Needwood Forest (1776) and pleaded with the author to make this privately printed volume available to the public.
TEXT RECORDS:
1758Winter. Begun at Winchester School. 1757.
1765Ode to Health. Written at Buxton in Derbyshire. 1765.
1765The Harehunter. A Burlesque Imitation of various Parts of Milton's L'Allegro, and Il Penseroso.
1776Needwood Forest.
PUBLICATIONS:
Poems. 1768.
Needwood forest. 1776.
The fall of Needwood. (My grand climacteric). 1808.
Needwood Forest, and the Fall of Needwood, with other poems. 1830.
PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:
English
Anglican
Winchester College
New College Oxford
Master of Arts
poet
Brooke Boothby
Dr. Erasmus Darwin
William Hayley
Sir Walter Scott
Anna Seward
Rev. William Bagshaw Stevens
Rev. Joseph Warton
REFERENCE:
Not DNB; not NCBEL.
"Poetical Lines in a Music-Bill" Gentleman's Magazine 52 (April 1782) 173; "Living English Poets" Gentleman's Magazine 62 (June 1792) 505; Poetical Register for 1805 (1807), 1806-07 (1811), 1808-09 (1812); obituary in Gentleman's Magazine 86 (April 1816) 293; "Tribute to F. N. C. Mundy" Gentleman's Magazine 86 (May 1816) 387-90; John Bowyer Nichols, "F. N. C. Mundy Esq." Gentleman's Magazine 86 (July 1816) 8; "Proposed Memorial for Mundy" Monthly Magazine 42 (September 1816) 184; Foster, Alumni Oxon (1887-91); C. R. Johnson, Provincial Poetry 1789-1839 (1992).
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