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In rancour's dark obscene sequestered seat

DMI number:
32767
First Line:
In rancour's dark obscene sequestered seat
Last Line:
Is a worse punishment than hell can give
Poem Genre / Form:
Address, Admonition, and Couplet
Themes:
Critics / criticism
Related People
Author:
Samuel Johnson
Confidence:
Speculation (10%)
Comments:
Included, then removed from the list of poems in Cooke's Life of Johnson, 1785; placed in wrong attributions by Nichol Smith (The Poems of Samuel Johnson, 2nd edn. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974): 467) and omitted by Fleeman, this can be assumed to be a false attribution.
Content/Publication
Title:
Miscellaneous and fugitive pieces [2nd ed] [vol 3] [T101913] [HATHI]
Page No(s):
p.290
Poem Title:
To a Bush Fighter
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
Title:
Miscellaneous and fugitive pieces [vol 3] [T101912] [ECCO]
Page No(s):
p.290
Poem Title:
To a Bush Fighter
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed