Lines to Miss Fanny Forman, on Bidding her Farewell

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Lines to Miss Fanny Forman, on Bidding her Farewell

Poet(s)

Maginn, William
Pseudonym:
The Veiled Editor of Blackwood's Magazine
Lockhart, John Gibson
Pseudonym:
The Veiled Editor of Blackwood's Magazine
Hogg, James
Pseudonym:
The Veiled Editor of Blackwood's Magazine
Wilson, John (pseudonym Christopher North)
Pseudonym:
The Veiled Editor of Blackwood's Magazine

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DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 5:30, 630–631, September 1819.

First line

Oh! the grass it springs green on the Street of the gay

Authorship

Pseudonymous

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Notes and attribution research

Included in The Tent section of this monthly part. Forman kept a tobacco shop in Edinburgh’s Princess Street. The circumstances of this poem are recounted in Noctes Ambrosianæ, by Wilson, Lockhart, Hogg, and Maginn, Redfield, 1854, p. 37. Note that Strout (57) lists only J. G. Lockhart as the possible author. (AC)

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Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 7795

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Lines to Miss Fanny Forman, on Bidding her Farewell