Notes on poems by Samuel Rogers, [ca. 1822].

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Notes on poems by Samuel Rogers, [ca. 1822].

Manuscript, in a single hand, of annotations written in a printed edition of poems by Samuel Rogers. The annotations consist of often unflattering commentary on the poems, biographical notes about Rogers, copies of verses "to which Rogers stands indebted," and notes on similarities in imagery or phrasing to other poets, including Oliver Goldsmith, John Dryden, Thomas Gray, Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Edmund Spenser. The collection also contains a copy of an essay by William Hazlitt on Rogers.

1 v. ; 17 x 11 cm.

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