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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Metaphor Category:
"Optics"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"The Spleen. An Epistle Inscribed to his particular Friend Mr. C. J."
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Date: 1737 (also 1738, 1743, reprinted 1754)
"Fain would he see some distant scene / Suggested by his restless spleen, / And fancy's telescope applies / With tinctur'd glass to cheat his eyes."
preview | full record— Green, Matthew (1696-1737)