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"Poetry"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"Ode V [from Lyric Odes to the Royal Academicians]"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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Metaphor Category:
"Animals"
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"Music"
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Date: 1787
"Fat flattens the most brilliant thoughts, / Like the buff-stop on harpsichords, or spinets-- / Muffling their pretty little tuneful throats, / That would have chirp'd away like linnets."
preview | full record— Wolcot, John, pseud. Peter Pindar, (1738-1819)