Evelina, Daughter of Caractacus. A Sacred Elegy. To this Edition is added the Ancient Fragment from which the Poem had its Origin

Bookseller Notes

Wynne's 'precipitous decline from gentility to indigence' is outlined in ODNB. His General History of the British Empire in America, 1771, gained some favourable attention, but his General History of Ireland (at the suggestion of Goldsmith), 1772, is held 'in little esteem', as Lowndes has it. His verses are generally considered to be bad, though this particular poem is of interest in an Ossianic context.This is the same collation (bar the half-title) as that given in ESTC, though expressed slightly differently: Cambridge, Harvard and Rice only in ESTC; a variant, with a simpler collation, ESTC T74535, 5 locations. The first edition, the previous year (without the Ancient Fragment) has a similar paucity of locations.The title vignette shows a gathering of Druids, a harpist among them, around the 'rude unpolished sarcophagus' of Evelina 'in the dark groves of ancient Mona', the inspiration of the poem.