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‘A counsellor well fitted to advise’

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Poem details

‘A counsellor well fitted to advise’

METADATA

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‘A counsellor well fitted to advise’

Poet(s)

Trench, Richard Chenevix

Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

The Nineteenth Century 23:136, 873, June 1888.

First line

A counsellor well fitted to advise

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

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Notes and attribution research

Cited in Aubrey de Vere’s essay Archbishop Trench’s Poems (pp.858-880).(HR)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 8259

XML

Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “‘A counsellor well fitted to advise’,” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.11beta , University of Victoria, 7th May 2025, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/nineteenthcentury/1888/pom_8259_a_counsellor_well_fitted_to.html.

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