Author: [ Mallet, David ]
Title: Amyntor And Theodora : Or, The Hermit. A Poem. In Three Cantos
Description: printed for Paul Vallant, in the Strand, 1747, 1st edition. Disbound, VG. ht+tp+viii+92pp, complete with the half title, in paper wrappers which are about 50 years old, a little dust soiling to the first & last pages and faint water tide mark to approx 20 pages which affects the bottom of the page at the gutter, otherwise a nice attractive copy. Disbound , no dustjacket. ¶ A narrative poem in blank verse set on the island of St Kilda off the west coast of the Hebrides. Mallet owes, and freeley credits in the footnotes, his description of the island to Martin Martin, who had published his 'A Late Voyage to St Kilda' in 1698. Mallet was able to sell the poem to Vallant for £120 - considerably more than he had got for his 1728 poem 'The Excursion'. David Mallet ( born Malloch ), Scottish poet & who tends to be remembered today for the harsh criticism leveled at him by Samuel Johnson in the 'Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets' (1779 - 81) and for being Viscount Bolingbroke's literary executor.

Keywords: poetry, poems, st kilda, scotland, scottish literature