Author: Musaes, I.
Biography:
by
Jackson, Heather (HJ)
MUSAES, I. (fl 1825)
Published in Nottingham in 1825, Poems is the only work known to have been published under the name of this author. The “I.” could stand for a forename beginning with either I or J. The surname is rare globally, matching no public records in Britain in this period and only a few German and French ones; the variant “Musaeus” is only slightly more common. The poems themselves have to do typically with solitude and loss, especially lost love, in various personae: the slave leaving his native land, the drowning mariner, the wanderer. It is possible that “I. Musaes” is a pseudonym, perhaps with a nod at the legendary Greek poet Musaeus, q.v., of Athens. HJ
Books written (1):
Nottingham: S. Bennett, 1825