Chapter LII

First published (without the author’s permission) in the _Newry Telegraph_ (April 19, 1817), and reprinted in many other journals. Highly praised by Byron (1822)--‘Such an ode as only Campbell could have written’--this poem was attributed to Byron himself, and claimed by many impostors. The question of authorship was settled in 1841 by the discovery of an autograph copy in a letter from Wolfe to a college friend.

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_Works, with a Memoir_ (7 vols., William Blackwood & Sons, 1839). Most of Mrs. Hemans’ poems were first published in periodicals, such as _The Edinburgh Monthly Magazine_ and _The New Monthly Magazine_. The latter was, for a time, edited by Thomas Campbell, not very successfully. The ‘Author’s Note’ on the first number is as follows:--‘It is supposed that war was anciently proclaimed in Britain by sending messengers in different directions through the land, each bearing a _bended bow_; and that peace was in like manner announced by a bow unstrung, and, therefore, straight.’

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The first (reprinted from _Knight’s Quarterly Magazine_) was included in the 1848 edition of the _Lays of Ancient Rome_. It is dated 1832.

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_Alma and other Poems_ (1855), and _Poems_ (New Edition, 2 vols., Macmillan & Co., 1885). By permission of Mr. A. Chenevix Trench.