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On Her Forgiveness of a Wrong

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On Her Forgiveness of a Wrong

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On Her Forgiveness of a Wrong

Poet(s)

Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen
Pseudonym:
Proteus

Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

The Nineteenth Century 10:57, 777, November 1881.

First line

This is not virtue. To forgive were great

Authorship

Pseudonymous

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

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Notes and attribution research

Poet referred to as , the author of Love Songs of Proteus. Poem included in the article A New Love Poet (763-84) by Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton. (HR)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 7973

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Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “On Her Forgiveness of a Wrong,” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.11beta , University of Victoria, 7th May 2025, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/nineteenthcentury/1881/pom_7973_on_her_forgiveness_of_a_wrong.html.

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