Bath in Quotes - a Literary View

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Editor: PAUL CRESSWELL

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Love it or loathe it, Bath leaves few unmoved. What’s more, a surprising number feel positively obliged to record their views for posterity, which suits our purpose admirably. Over the centuries these scribes have produced a veritable cornucopia of gossip, insight, prejudice and fine observation, from which Paul Creswell skilfully selects with glee and appreciation

Here, in prose and poetry you will find the great and the good, the charlatan and the self-regarding, the enduring and the shooting star. What they have to say reveals much about themselves and their times, reflected in that continung mirror of society, Bath.

As for Bath, all history went and bathed
and drank the waters there
WILLIAM THACKERAY

Bath, as a city, is like a Frenchman’s shirt; the ruffle
is very fine, but the body very coarse
CHARLES DIBDIN

Bath is the worst of all places for getting any work
done
WILLIAM WILBERFORCE

Bath is a place of gallantry enough; expensive and full of snares, where men find a mistress sometimes
but very seldom look for a wife.
DANIEL DEFOE

...‘go to Bath’ and endeavour to prolong your life
DR. JOHNSON

SELECTED CONTENTS:

THE SACRED GROVE Alexander Neckham
IN PRAISE OF BATH Thomas Chandler
BATH – A PLEASANT BOTTOM John Leland
NATURE OF THE BATHES William Turner

RULES TO BE OBSERVED AT BATH
John Feckenham

THE BOYLING BATHES Edmund Spenser
OF BATHES & HOT WELLES
Raphael Holinshed

A SEETHING BATH William Shakespeare
A SONG ON THE BATHS William Strode
A VISIT TO BATHE John Evelyn
A PEEP AT THE BATH Samuel Pepys
THE WAYES TO THE BATH Celia Fiennes
INTELLIGENCE FROM THE BATH
Richard Steele

SLIPPERY SLOPES Alexander Pope
ON A LADY’S GOING INTO THE BATH
Thomas D’Urfey
DIVERSIONS OF BATH Daniel Defoe
THE LAWS OF BATH Richard Nash
ORDERS OF BEAU NASH William Congreve
A FAREWELL TO BATH
Lady Wortley Montagu

LAWS OF BATH – (Parodied)
Thomas Goulding

A SCENE OF PLEASURES Joseph Draper
A FAINT PICTURE OF BATH
Oliver Goldsmith

THE AMUSEMENTS OF BATH John Wood
AVERSION TO WATERING PLACES
Horace Walpole

A LETTER FROM BATH John Penrose
THE TERRORS OF BATHING
Tobias Smollett

RIDOTTO OF BATH Richard Sheridan
POETICAL GUIDE TO BATH
Christopher Anstey

SUMMER MERIDIAN OF PLEASURE
BATH AT THE RIGHT SEASON
Francis Burney

A COMFORTABLE RETREAT Phillip Thicknesse

CARELESS BATH Charles Dibdin
A RAMBLE TO BATH Mr Knight
A NOTE ON BATH Franz Haydn
THE CANAAN OF PHYSICIANS
Robert Southey

CHILDHOOD RECOLLECTIONS
Sir Walter Scott

SNUG LYING John Cam Hobhouse
A BRIEF SOJOURN AT BATH
Louis Simmond

BATH ON A WET AFTERNOON Jane Austen
DR. SYNTAX VISITS BATH
William Coombe

REGULAR WATER DRINKERS
Charles Dickens

APPROACH AND ARRIVAL AT BATH
A B Granville

BATH FROM A RAILWAY CARRIAGE
Thomas Carlyle
AS FOR BATH William Thackeray
LITTLEBATH Anthony Trollope
THE TWO ERAS Charles Tennyson
VIEW FROM PRIOR PARK Francis Kilvert
MIDNIGHT ON BEECHEN CLIFF
Thomas Hardy

A BATH DITTY Harry Ebdon
A BALLAD OF BATH A S Swinburne
THE PLEASANT WHITE CITY M A Barbeau
ON BATH G K Chesterton
I SINK INTO BATH H V Morton
THE ARRIVAL OF BEAU NASH Edith Sitwell
BATH BY MOONLIGHT H G Wells
THE TEMPLE OF ANTIQUITY H M Bateman
BATH Wrenne Jarman
THE BOMBED CITY Charles Whitby
A LETTER FROM BATH Alistair Cooke
THE NEWEST BATH GUIDE John Betjeman
ANOTHER NEW BATH GUIDE Ian Burton
THE WEST FRONT AT BATH U A Fanthorpe
THE GRAND OLD SPA Jan Morris
A DREAM OF BATH Rebecca Kwo