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Words on Banishment -- Pope to Atterbury
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"Once more my Pen it's willing task performs"
Words on Banishment -- Pope to Atterbury
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"Once more my Pen it's willing task performs"
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1804
Words on Banishment -- Pope to Atterbury
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According to a letter from Grant to Sir Henry B. Hayes (a copy of which is included in Grant's journal entry of 27 January 1805), this poem was versified from a prose letter written by Alexander Pope to Atterbury. The letter contained 'Advice from a Philosopher to a Banish'd Man going into Exile'.
(Source: This Beauteous, Wicked Place : Letters and Journals of John Grant, Gentleman Convict. John Grant, edited by Yvonne Cramer.)
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