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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Religion of Author:
"Church of Scotland"
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Work title:
"Poem"
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Metaphor Category:
"Mineral"
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Date: 1743
"In that dread Moment, how the frantick Soul / Raves round the Walls of her Clay Tenement, / Runs to each Avenue, and shrieks for Help, / But shrieks in vain!"
preview | full record— Blair, Robert (1699-1746)
Date: 1757, 1769
"As thus to touch his iron heart they try'd, / The Cyclops smiling, scornful thus reply'd:"
preview | full record— Wilkie, William (1721-1772)
Date: 1786
"But if (which Pow'rs above prevent) / That iron-hearted carl, Want, / Attended, in his grim advances, / By sad mistakes, and black mischances"
preview | full record— Burns, Robert (1759-1796)