‘Thrice happy fools! What wisdom shall we learn’

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‘Thrice happy fools! What wisdom shall we learn’

Poet(s)

Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen

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The Nineteenth Century 10:57, 778, November 1881.

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Thrice happy fools! What wisdom shall we learn

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Notes and attribution research

Poet referred to as , the author of Love Songs of Proteus. One of several sonnets to Juliet (778-779). Cited in Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton’s A New Love Poet (pp. 763-784). (HR) Article signed Lytton. (CE)

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‘Thrice happy fools! What wisdom shall we learn’