Author: COLE (William):
Title: Rural Months: A Descriptive Poem. In Twelve Cantos; Being chiefly Founded on a Review of the Year 1799. Also, Boyland-Hall, and other Miscellaneous Poems.
Description: [Norwich]: Printed for the Author; and sold by Matchett and Stevenson, and J. Stacy, Norwich; and all Other Booksellers in Norfolk and Suffolk. 1824 FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Tall 12mo, 197 x 119 mms., pp.xii, [3] 4 - 152 + Errata slip, including half-title and list of subscribers at end , engraved vignette on dedication page, contemporary quarter roan, marbled boards, spine gilt; corners slightly worn, spine rubbed, top of spine chipped, but a good copy, with a dedication to Captain Frederick Paul Irby, of Boyland-Hall, who subscribed for four copies, his wife also for four, and F. W. Irby and the Honourable Miss Irby each for two. Mark Storey, in The Poetry of John Clare: A Critical Introduction, records that Cole wrote this as a challenge to replicate in verse what the painter would produce in a picture: "Cole is not a poet of [James] Grahame's calibre.... He is accordingly diffident to start with...even though Cole adopts the pentameter couplet as the vehicle for his observations."

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