Fair copy of a letter from William Godwin to [?Anne Elizabeth] Lefanu, dated 14 March 1811

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MS. Abinger c. 19, fols. 25-6, ‘William Godwin to ?[Anne Elizabeth] Lefanu , 14 Mar. 1811’

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Fair copy of a letter from William Godwin to [?Anne Elizabeth] Lefanu, dated 14 March 1811

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Fair copy of a letter from William Godwin to [?Anne Elizabeth] Lefanu, dated 14 March 1811.

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The letter critiques the recipient’s poetry before going on to mention a series of poets: Voltaire; Jacques Pradon; Jean Racine; William Shakespeare; John Milton; Samuel Johnson; Edmund Waller; and John Dryden.

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2 ff.

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