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'The Commotion'

Reference code
MSS/0695
Title
'The Commotion'
Date
late 18th century and 1823
Level of description
item
Extent and format
Paper; ff. 44 and loose insertions.
Quarto.
Brown paper covers.
Scope and content
Poem in heroic couplets, in three Cantos beginning 'Accurst the Bard that draws his venal Pen'. Canto 2 begins 'But now precarious state of Humankind', fol. 15; Canto 3 begins 'Next to the Multitude the Chiefs apply', fol. 29. Corrected draft. Quotation from Thomas Otway's The History and Fall of Caius Marius on the title page. Prose fragment, in a different hand, beginning 'Woman, thou fairest & sweetest of nature's works', signed by W. Simonds, 23 Oct. 1823.
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/695