‘I think there never was a dearer woman’

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‘I think there never was a dearer woman’

Poet(s)

Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen

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The Nineteenth Century 10:57, 778–779, November 1881.

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I think there never was a dearer woman

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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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Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 8148

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‘I think there never was a dearer woman’