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Joseph Cottle : 'The Affectionate Heart'

'The Affectionate Heart' 'Let the great man, his treasures possessing/...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group     Print: Unknown

Joseph Cottle : Poems

Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'I have got an old translation of Montaignes essays & hugely delighted am I with this honest egotism! buy Cottles poems for the mans sake — I love him so well that I would have you love whatever comes from him — read nothing but the monody — omne ignotum pro magnifico — & you will think him a first rate poet. it is a most masterly composition.'

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

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