Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Irregular sonnets on truth
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| Other uniform titles: | Gerald N. Wachs Collection of Nineteenth Century English Poetry.
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| Other authors / contributors: | Appleton, Charles Edward Cutts Birch, 1841-1879.
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| Provenance: | Tipped on manuscript letter dated "Aug. 7" from Charles Appleton: Dear sir, The enclosed is the work of Thomas Tod Stoddart one of the earlist of the 'spasmodic' poets. Perhpas you may remember his magnum opus "The deathwake or Lunacy, a necromaunt in three chimeras." If you care to say 10 lines for the Academy, do so. Yrs truly, C. Appleton.
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| Notes: | Cover title.
Authorship attributed in tipped on manuscript letter from Charles Appleton.
Stoddart mentions working on "a volume of poems ... under the designation of 'Periods of the mind'" in the autobiographical sketch printed in his 'Songs of the seasons and other poems', however he only describes one of the "effusions," entitled 'Yarrow', "the larger portion of which [was] written in the Scottish language." He does however mention that "of these effusions the main portions have been printed and circulated among friends." Consult Stoddart, T.T. Songs of the seasons and other poems (1881), page xlvi.
Gerald N. Wachs Collection of Nineteenth-Century Poetry, entry 618
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