The Origin of Language. An Excellent New Song

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The Origin of Language. An Excellent New Song

Poet(s)

Neaves, Charles

Unsigned

Credits

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Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 91:556, 226–227, February 1862.

First line

‘Tis not very easy to tell

Authorship

Unsigned

Notes and attribution research

Air―Let Schoolmasters puzzle their brains (HR). Poem published in Songs and Verses: Social and Scientific by an Old Contributor to Maga, second ed., William Blackwood and Sons, 1868, pp. 10-13. Songs and Verses is unsigned but is attributed to Lord Neaves in the ODNB (KAF).

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Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 9596

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

The Origin of Language. An Excellent New Song