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William Chamberlayne : Pharonnida, a Heroick Poem

Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 4 December 1792: 'I have already said too much. I have an old poem of the heroic class before me. Pharonnida — one of the Cantos was finishd on the morning of the second battle of Newberry. [Quotes several lines of "Pharonnida"] This man would have written blank verse wonderfully well. he mistook his bent & in spite of an interesting story & a bold imagination Pharonnida is forgotten. you see he was a royalist...'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

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