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Re: ‘ . . Then might I, with unrivall'd strains, deplore The impervious horrors of a leeward shore.’

Kate Bunting

Thanks for this, Christo - most interesting. I was recently re-reading TH in which the poetry competition between Mowett and Rowan takes place. I note that The Film made the mistake (though it ended up among the deleted scenes) of attributing Rowan's style of verse to Mowett.

On Mon Nov 2, Chrístõ wrote
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>The Shipwreck In Three Cantos. The Time Employed In This Poem Is About Six Days.
>            Quaeque ipse miserrima vidi,
>    Et quorum pars magna fui.
>    Virg. Aen. lib. ii.
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