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Willy Herdman. The Old Soldier

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Willy Herdman. The Old Soldier

METADATA

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Willy Herdman. The Old Soldier

Poet(s)

Gillespie, Thomas (1778-1844) (pseudonym Juvenalis Junior)
Pseudonym:
Juvenalis Junior

Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 9:50, 154–155, May 1821.

First line

Poor Willy Herdman, o’er thy Chilly Bier

Authorship

Pseudonymous

Related poems

Linked as a series in non-consecutive issues

Notes and attribution research

Included in a sequence of poems titled Sketches of Scottish Character. No. VI by Juvenalis Junior (151-57) (KAF). Poet attribution: Strout 78 (AC).

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 9236

XML

Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “Willy Herdman. The Old Soldier,” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.11beta , University of Victoria, 7th May 2025, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/blackwoods/1821/pom_9236_willy_herdman_the_old_soldier.html.

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