/ en /some-notes-new-college-hunters Some Notes on ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Hunters Christopher Skelton-Foord Issue number (2023): 19 Notes category Hunting George Turbervile Philip Herbert, First Earl of Montgomery and Fourth Earl of Pembroke Peter Beckford Robert Lowth Robert Lowth, Jr. Richard Greville Verney, 19th Baron Willoughby de Broke Cyril Hare Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark Raymond Carr

Hunting has been woven into the very fabric of our college since the earliest days. The most celebrated and widely read of hunting poems, The Chase (1735), was penned by our alumnus William Somervile. But what of other ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ hunters whose writings have appeared in print?

 

Misericord [detail], late 14th century (wood) English School, New College Chapel, Oxford

 

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19NCN3 (2023) Skelton-Foord on Hunters.pdf1.74 MB ]]> Mon, 31 Jul 2023 12:50:06 +0000 Christopher 2763 at /node/2598 Chasing Somervile, New College’s Poet of the Hunt Christopher Skelton-Foord Issue number (2022): 18 Notes category William Somervile Library Antiquarian Archives Poetry Hunting

The two principal passions in the life of William Somervile (1675–1742) appear to have been hunting and poetry, which together combined in his most celebrated work, the four-volume hunting georgic poem The Chace (1735). Somervile was schooled in Stratford-upon-Avon, and thereafter Winchester ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, before proceeding to ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, where he later became a fellow. ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library’s holdings of his works are extensive, varied, and remarkable.

 

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²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library and Archives, Oxford

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