Holograph verse satire unsigned

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1796725
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{"value"=>"B'ANA 0708", "type"=>"local_call"}
unitdate
{"value"=>"[?1 January 1822]", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1822-01-01", "certainty"=>"questionable"}
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{"value"=>"Holograph verse satire unsigned"}
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{"value"=>"SC File"}
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{"value"=>"<p>On Lord Byron's drama <em>Cain</em> (1821). Following the body of a January 1822 letter from Wordsworth to Robert Southey, headed with the note: \"Turn over— / The Girls [Southey's daughter Edith and his niece Sara Coleridge] may be amused—;\" begins, \"Critics, right honorable Bard! decree / Laurels to some, a nightshade wreath to thee, / Whose Muse a sure though late revenge hath ta'en / Of harmless Abel's death by murdering Cain.\" This quatrain and the next were first published by William Knight in his <em>Poetical Works of William Wordsworth</em>, 8 volumes (1896), but the letter itself he had apparently not seen. See seperate entry in Series II for letter.</p>"}
note
{"value"=>"De Selincourt volume 4, letter 1821; SC 976 : volume XII, pages 718-26; Chester L. Shaver, \"Wordsworth on Byron: an Unpublished Letter to Southey,\" Modern Language Notes LXXV (June 1960), pages 488–90."}
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1822-01-01
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1822-01-01
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1822-01-01
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1822
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1822
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2 pages : double sheet

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