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The Song of Eve to Cain

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The Song of Eve to Cain

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The Song of Eve to Cain

Poet(s)

Sterling, John
Pseudonym:
Archæus

Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 43:271, 696, May 1838.

First line

Oh! rest, my baby, rest!

Authorship

Pseudonymous

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Document status

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

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Notes and attribution research

Poet attribution: “Archæus” is the pseudonym for John Sterling. Poem included in the unsigned “Our Two Vases” (677-706), by John Wilson. (SP, AC)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 14726

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Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “The Song of Eve to Cain,” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.8beta, University of Victoria, 30th June 2023, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/blackwoods/1838/pom_14726_the_song_of_eve_to_cain.html.

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