Robert Montgomery letter to My dear Blanchard, and manuscript poem, 1832 and undated.

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Robert Montgomery letter to My dear Blanchard, and manuscript poem, 1832 and undated.

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The collection consists of two items: letter to My dear Blanchard, 13 July 1832, a long letter responding to satire and criticism of his writing, with some information about himself; also, manuscript poem, titled Infancy, describing a child and childhood, undated, with integral address to The Literary Gazette.

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Montgomery, Robert, 1807-1855

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Robert Montgomery was born and educated at Bath, the illegitimate son of comic actor Robert Gomery. He adopted the name Montgomery, and published his first book of poems at the age of eighteen. He published several satires and numerous poems, including his most popular work, The Omnipresence of the Deity. Most reviews were unkind, considering his verse pretentious, sentimental, and generally poor, but his work remained popular, even after a scathing review by Thomas Babington Macaulay in the Edi...