Montagu Montagu

Captain Montagu Montagu (1787-1863) was a Captain in the Royal Navy, and an author and autograph collector. His published works include original poetry, as well as translations of Friedrich Schiller and Giovanni Battista Casti^[1], religious controversy, and editions of the Psalms.

Life[edit]

Montagu entered the Royal Navy in 1799. He was appointed Captain on 2 November 1805.^[2]

He died at Bath on July 3 1863.^[3]

Works[edit]

• Montagu, Montagu., and Philip Bowes V. Broke. England Victorious, a Poem upon the Capture of the American Frigate Chesapeake. To Which Is Prefixed Captain Broke's Official Letter Relating the Action [&c.], 1814.
• Casti, Giovanni Battista, and Montagu Montagu. The Trè Giuli, Tr. [into Verse by M. Montagu] with a Memoir, 1826
• Schiller, Friedrich, and Montagu Montagu. The Song of the Bell, and Other Poems, Tr. [by M. Montagu], 1839
• Gresset, Jean Baptiste L., and Montagu Montagu. Vert-vert, a Poem, Tr. by M. Montagu, 1840.
• Casti, Giovanni Battista., and Montagu Montagu. The Three Groats. New ed., 1841.
• The Seven Penitential Psalms, in Verse, with an Appendix, by M. Montagu. 1844 and 1851.
• The Psalms, in a New Version, Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches, by M.Montagu, 1846 and 1851.
• Dirge for Wellington [signed M.M.], 1852.
• Good Morning and Good Night [signed M.M. In Verse], 1852.
• Yes and No [signed M.M. In Verse], 1852.
• The Birth of the Leek [signed M.M. In Verse], 1853.
• Selection, from the Psalms in a New Version, of All the Entire Psalms or Parts of Others Suitable for Singing, by M. Montagu, 1854.
• Crimean Graves (ode). With 6 Sonnets, 1856.
• Fifty Sonnets on Various Subjects, 1860
• Fifty More Sonnets on Various Subjects, 1861.

Collections[edit]

Montagu bequeathed a collection of manuscripts and printed books to the Bodleian Libraries in 1863. This collection consists of c.700 volumes in various branches of literature.^[4] These dated from the 16th- 19th century and included copies of work by classical authors, English and Italian poetry, and papers relating to the works of Shakespeare.^[5]

Specific works include 90 editions and versions of the Psalter, works on Psalmody, editions of Anacreon, Horace, Juvenal, Phaedrus, Petrarch, Boileau and Jean de La Fontaine|La Fontaine. The collection also contains topographical and biographical works with additional engravings.^[4] A small sketch of the profile of Napoleon I, by the well-known Italian artist Giuseppe Longhi, also accompanied the collection.^[3]

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