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Title: To the author of The Complaint

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Extravagant praise of the poetic skill of Edward Young's "Complaint, or Night

Thoughts" for revealing the truths of the Christian religion and human

existence in so affecting and inspirational a manner

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Title: To the author of the Complaint

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: In praise of the poetic skill of Edward Young's "Complaint, or Night

Thoughts", for revealing the truths of the Christian religion and human

existence in so inspirational a manner; comparing other contemporary poets.

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Title: A query to a dull author. An epigram

Author: Anonymous

Attribution: N; The London magazine

Date(s): 1775 (published) ?

Manuscript: Lt 12

Contents: Satirical epigram on a tedious writer

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Sender: Dobree, Bonamy

Recipient: Society of Authors

Letters: 1

Date(s): 20 Oct 1946

Location: BC Dobree correspondence, LBEV II: 19

Note: Photocopy.

Sender: Society of Authors

Recipient: Dobree, Bonamy

Letters: 1

Date(s): 24 Oct 1946

Location: BC Dobree correspondence, LBEV II: 21

Note: Photocopy.

Title: To the author of a poem entituled Successio

Author: Pope, Alexander

Attribution: Mr Pope

Date(s): 1712 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 20

Contents: Satire on the dullness and small literary ability of Elkanah Settle

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Title: To the author of The Night Thoughts

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: On the value of Edward Young's "Complaint, or Night Thoughts" as a guide

through life

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Title: To the author of Night Thoughts

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: In praise of Edward Young's "Complaint, or Night Thoughts", comparing the

inspirational guidance of his sequence of 'nights' with the importance of

night in God's original creation

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Title: Verses on the author's birthday

Author: Anonymous

Attribution: Phocion

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Religious poem, birthday reflections on the past and the unknowable future,

hoping for God's guidance through the remainder of life

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Sender: Society of Authors

Recipient: Thwaite, Anthony

Letters: 1

Date(s): 28 Feb 1962

Location: Listener

Title: To the author of the Essays upon Man

Author: Somervile, William

Date(s): 173- ?

Manuscript: Lt 72

Contents: In praise of the combination of wisdom, ethics and poetry in Alexander Pope's Essay on Man, and for its teaching mankind the nature of God's works

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Title: To the author of the Satyr Against Wit

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 52

Contents: Apparently a reply to John Donne's 'Satire II', addressed to a doctor. Asserts that Donne's satire is fit only to be food for rats, but that it will kill the rats that eat it.

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