Philological Quarterly, March 22nd, 1993
The 1727 poem 'The Coronation' by Henry Fielding is known only through a newspaper advertisement; the text of the poem has never been found. However, the 'St James Evening Post' of Nov 11 does include the poem's epigraph, some lines from Virgil's 'Eclogue.' A second poem attributed to Fielding, 'An Original Song, Written on the First Appearance of the Beggar's Opera,' appears in a 1731 pamphlet under the name of Tony Aston. The attribution to Aston is probably correct, as the only source linking the work to Fielding is an unreliable 1787 issue of 'The Country Magazine.'
On November 1727 appea...
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