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Book of Verse

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INTRODUCTION

by Joyce Irene Whalley

EDITIONS

Facsimile of the manuscript, 1870

A Book of Verse, 1870, Victoria and Albert Museum Collections



SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL:

J. A. George, "A Very Private Gesture: William Morris' A Book of Verse and its Public Sequel," Private and Public Voices in Victorian Poetry, eds. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Holger Klein. Tubinger: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2000, 103-110.

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