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The Pains of Knowledge

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The Pains of Knowledge

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The Pains of Knowledge

Poet(s)

Sterling, John

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Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 42:264, 567, October 1837.

First line

As up the Tower of knowledge slow we rise

Authorship

Unsigned

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

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Generated: The file was automatically generated from metadata in the project metadata database.

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Notes and attribution research

Poem included with the general title Thoughts in Verse—Crystals from Caverns, and within the unsigned Our Two Vases (548-72) by John Wilson. Poet attribution: Wellesley Index. (SP, AC)

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Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 14654

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Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “The Pains of Knowledge,” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.9beta, University of Victoria, 18th March 2024, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/blackwoods/1837/pom_14654_the_pains_of_knowledge.html.

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