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Better Alone Than in Bad Company

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Poem details

Better Alone Than in Bad Company

METADATA

Metadata

Better Alone Than in Bad Company

Poet(s)

Billi, Marianna Giarrè

Credits

Translator

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 151:917, 363, March 1892.

First line

Go! never, never let me see thee more

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Original language

Italian

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Notes and attribution research

Poem appears in Helen Zimmern’s article Italian Poets of To-day (350-69). (KF)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 8355

XML

Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “Better Alone Than in Bad Company,” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.11beta , University of Victoria, 7th May 2025, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/blackwoods/1892/pom_8355_better_alone_than_in_bad.html.

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