‘Wooden shoes! who’ll buy, who’ll buy?’

METADATA

Metadata

‘Wooden shoes! who’ll buy, who’ll buy?’

Poet(s)

Unsigned

Credits

Translator

Clerke, Ellen M.

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Temple Bar 67, 218–219, February 1883.

First line

Wooden shoes! who’ll buy, who’ll buy?

Authorship

Unsigned

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Original language

Italian

Notes and attribution research

Poem included in the unsigned prose contribution Street Life in Naples (214-22), by Ellen Mary Clerke (Wellesley Index) (EW, NM). Translator attribution: E. M. Clerke, Fable and Song in Italy (London: Grant Richards, 1899), p. 184, where the poem is republished. Clerke credits herself for the translations in the book's preface (BGL).

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 17776

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

‘Wooden shoes! who’ll buy, who’ll buy?’