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‘See, my neighbour’s window curtain’

POEM DETAILS

Poem details

‘See, my neighbour’s window curtain’

METADATA

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‘See, my neighbour’s window curtain’

Poet(s)

de Musset, Alfred

Credits

Translator

Hardinge, William Money

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

The Nineteenth Century 9:51, 832, May 1881.

First line

See, my neighbour’s window curtain

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Original language

French

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Notes and attribution research

Poem included in the article French Verse in English (812-37) by William M. Hardinge. (HR)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 7929

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Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “‘See, my neighbour’s window curtain’,” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.11beta , University of Victoria, 7th May 2025, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/nineteenthcentury/1881/pom_7929_see_my_neighbours_window.html.

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