James Thomson (d. 1748): The Seasons. The work was reprinted many times. Quotations are from the 1829 Hartford edition.

There exists an 1842 edition of The Seasons which also contains Bloomfield’s Farmer’s Boy (see chapter XIV). If similar collections were published earlier, this might be the source for both poems.

In Alida, passages from The Seasons are almost always in quotation marks.

Mary (Mrs. Henry) Tighe: Psyche, with Other Poems. Quoted from 1816 London edition.

Quoted works: Verses Written at the Commencement of Spring (1802); Verses Written in Sickness (1804); A Faithful Friend is the Medicine of Life.

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