From 1827. To the right of each line, Poe gives the source from which it was adapted. Here, we have been forced to give multiple small gull brackets, while Poe draws one large gull bracket to divide this column from the text. The reference of Cowper applies to the line marked and the following one.
70683To MargaretEdgar Allan Poe
Who hath seduced thee to this foul revolt
From the pure well of Beauty undefiled?
So banish from true wisdom to prefer
Such squalid wit to honourable rhyme?
To write? To scribble? Nonsense and no more?
I will not write upon this argument
To write is human -- not to write divine.
Milton Par. Lost Bk. I
Somebody
Cowper's Task, Book I
Shakespeare
do. Trolius & Cressida
Pope Essay on Man
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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please dont' remove this scratch stuff, it's scratch.
