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Summer Evening in Herts. (Composed Many Seasons Ago)

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Poem details

Summer Evening in Herts. (Composed Many Seasons Ago)

METADATA

Metadata

Summer Evening in Herts. (Composed Many Seasons Ago)

Poet(s)

Eagles, John
Pseudonym:
Rusticus Quondam

Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 41:258, 445–446, April 1837.

First line

How calm the valley’s slumbering breast

Authorship

Pseudonymous

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

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Notes and attribution research

Included in the unsigned prose essay Our Two Vases, by John Wilson (429-48). Poet attribution: Curran Index. (AC)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 14149

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Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “Summer Evening in Herts. (Composed Many Seasons Ago),” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.11beta , University of Victoria, 7th May 2025, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/blackwoods/1837/pom_14149_summer_evening_in_herts.html.

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