POEMS
Philadelphia [PA]: Printed by T & G. Palmer, for J. Conrad & Co., 1804. First American edition. 15.5 cm. 231pp., [1]. Full flame leather. Gilt stamped red leather spine label and gilt rules. Bookplate of George Hale Nutting who served as President of Sons of the Revolution, on front pastedown. American Imprints 5824. "In 1803 he published Poems, a collection which reflects a profound and early admiration of Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads; unwilling to be publicly associated with those writers, however (Francis Jeffrey had just commenced his attacks on the ‘Lake school’), Bayley presented an imitation of Wordsworth's 'Idiot Boy' as a burlesque. Wordsworth and Coleridge responded by assisting Robert Southey in writing a ferocious review of the volume for the Annual Review. Bayley had written other poetry, but this review, along with financial security on his father's death, subdued his literary ambitions." - David Chandler. ODNB. Item #68741
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