Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (1782)

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Earl R. Miner, University of California, Los Angeles
Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los Angeles
Robert Vosper, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan
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