As in my cell low prostrate on the ground

DMI number:

23461

First Line:

As in my cell low prostrate on the ground

Last Line:

And your wrecked soul be calmly hushed to peace

Poem Genre / Form:

Couplet

Themes:

Love and Prison / imprisonment

Related People

Author:

Judith Madan [nee Cowper]

Confidence:

Confident (50%)

Comments:

Attributed to Madan in ODNB.

Author:

William Pattison

Confidence:

Speculation (10%)

Comments:

ODNB entry (Madan): "‘Abelard to Eloisa’, written in 1720 in response to Pope's poem, appeared in William Pattison's Poetical Works (1728) as his own." Forster (1980): 61. Pattison (1728) I: 67-77.

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Content/Publication

Title:

A collection of original poems and translations [ESTC T101302]

Page No(s):

pp.297-306

Poem Title:

Abelard to Heloisa.

Attribution:

By a Lady.

Attributed To:

Not attributed