| 词条 | Francis Noel Clarke Mundy |
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| name = Francis Noel Clarke Mundy | image = Francis Noel Clarke Mundy by Joseph Wright of Derby.jpg | image_size = 240px | caption = c. 1762, by Joseph Wright of Derby | birth_name = | birth_date = 15 August 1739 | birth_place = Osbaston{{sfn|Bigsby|1854|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=68oHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA276 Francis Noel Clarke Mundy p. 276–282]}} | death_date = 23 October 1815 | death_place = Markeaton Hall | death_cause = | resting_place = Allestree Church | resting_place_coordinates = | residence = Markeaton Hall | nationality =English | other_names = | known_for = Poetry | education = Repton, Winchester and New College, Oxford | employer = | occupation = magistrate, landowner and poet | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = Francis Mundy | party = | boards = | religion = | spouse = Elizabeth Elizabeth Burdett | children = Francis Mundy and Charles Godfrey Mundy | parents = Wrightson Mundy and Anne (was Burdett) | relatives = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} Francis Noel Clarke Mundy 1739 – 1815 was an English poet. His most noted work was written to defend Needwood Forest which was enclosed at the beginning of the 19th century. He was the father of Francis Mundy. LifeFrancis Noel Clarke Mundy was born 15 August 1739 at Osbaston Hall, Osbaston, Leicestershire, which at that time belonged to the Mundys a family which had been based in Markeaton since John Mundy bought lands in Derbyshire. He received his education at Repton School and at Winchester and then proceeded to New College, Oxford in 1757,receiving his MA in 1761.{{sfn|Bigsby|1854|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=68oHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA276 Francis Noel Clarke Mundy p. 276–282]}}{{sfn|Radcliffe|2015|loc=Francis Noel Clarke Mundy (1739–1815)}} In 1762-3, Joseph Wright exhibited a set of six portraits that were commissioned by Mundy. Each of the portraits were in the distinctive dress of the Markearton Hunt consisting of yellow breeches and a blue coat over a scarlet waistcoat. These paintings hung at the ancestral home of Markeaton Hall.{{sfn|Sotheby's|2005}} The subjects of these commissions included old school friends like Harry Peckham K.C. and relatives like his brother-in-law, Francis Burdett. Mundy married first Elizabeth Ayrton who died in Falmouth aged 22 on 1 October 1768. He then married Elizabeth eldest daughter of Sir Robert Burdett bart in 1770 and had two sons: Francis and Charles Godfrey[1] His second wife died in 1807 aged 64.{{sfn|Bigsby|1854|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=68oHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA276 Francis Noel Clarke Mundy p. 276–282]}} As a poet he is considered part of the Lichfield circle.{{sfn|Radcliffe|2015|loc=Francis Noel Clarke Mundy (1739–1815)}} Mundy died in 1815 and the magistrates of Derbyshire commissioned a bust by Francis Chantrey which was placed in the county hall in memory of his long and eminent services as justice of the peace and chairman of the quarter sessions.{{Sfn|Burke|1835|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=QisAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA26 Francis Noel Clarke Mundy p. 26]}} The bust bears the following inscription:
In addition there is an engraving of him with his grandson, William Mundy, by Charles Turner (after R. R. Reinagle). The picture also features in the foreground the manuscript of Mundy's ‘'The Fall of Needwood Forest’'. South Derbyshire magistrates court also own an oil painting of him "after" Thomas Lawrence.{{sfn|BBC|2015}} WorkMundy was the author of two admired descriptive poems Needwood Forest (1776){{sfn|Mundy|1776}} and the Fall of Needwood (1808).{{sfn|Mundy|1808}} Needwood Forest was a large ancient woodland in Staffordshire which was destroyed under the authority of the Inclosure Act of 1803. Despite Mundy's and other protests it was removed by 1811. Anna Seward regarded his poem, Needwood Forest, as "one of the most beautiful local poems" and "the first entirely local poem in our language"{{sfn|deLucia|2013}} and persistedly promoted Mundy's poetry, writing verses in praise of it.{{sfn|Bowerbank|2004|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=v-6t35pfsdoC&pg=PA177 Anna Seward as environmental writer p. 177]}} However she also claimed that large portions of Needwood Forest were actually written by herself and by Erasmus Darwin.{{sfn|Barnard|2013|loc=[https://books.google.ca/books?id=gKNTsqbxMsEC&pg=PA110 'A free agent' p. 110]}} Needwood Forest was well regarded in its time, and is an example of the provincial verse that was starting to become a feature of late eighteenth century English literature. The poem, which is in five parts is written in octosyllabic couplets and contains allusions to Milton, Spenser, Denham and Pope.{{sfn|Radcliffe|2015|loc=Needwood Forest 1776}} It was printed privately (500 copies as presents to his friends) and is appended with a number of commendatory verses, by fellow Lichfield poets Sir Brooke Boothby, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward (attributed only by their initials). Seward tried to persuade Mundy to publish the poem publicly.{{sfn|Radcliffe|2015|loc=Needwood Forest 1776}} The Fall of Needwood also contains three shorter poems, see below (p. 37). There also existed an edition combining the two earlier volumes, with different pagination to the original volumes.{{sfn|Parkin|1875}}{{sfn|Mundy|1776a}} The appended poems also differ. Following the grand climacteric there are two commendatory poems, by Seward and by Hayley. In the posthumous 1830 edition are appended the 1808 poems and five others, titled Miscellaneous Pieces (p. 97). One of these, The Backwardness of the Present Spring Accounted For, May 5th, 1782 (p. 110), has also been attributed to Anna Seward.{{sfn|George|2005}} Selected poems and publicationsPoems include;{{sfn|Radcliffe|2015|loc=Francis Noel Clarke Mundy (1739–1815)}}
LegacyIn 1830, two volumes were published which made available the many poems not published during Mundy's lifetime.{{sfn|Bigsby|1854|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=68oHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA276 Francis Noel Clarke Mundy p. 276–282]}}{{sfn|Mundy|1830}} Finally, in 1851, William Mundy paid for a memorial window to his grandfather to be installed in Markeaton church. Notes1. ^Of Burton Hall near Loughborough in the county of Leicester References{{reflist|30em}}Bibliography{{refbegin|30em}}
Mundy and Seward
Works by Mundy
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