| Selected item (#2115) = God of slaughter, quit the scene |
| Attributes of this item |
| incipit (first line(s), normalized): |
God of slaughter, quit the scene |
| version (if more than one exists): |
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| the item's genre (general): |
ode |
| the item's genre (specific): |
New Year |
the institution/place or purpose
for which the work was first destined: |
English court |
| the work's year (or focal date, if known): |
1762 |
| author of the text: |
William Whitehead |
| composer of the music: |
William Boyce |
| Data-note concerning sources (PJE, Sun Apr 10 21:57:54 2022, updated Mon Apr 11 08:05:29 2022): |
| See some impressive information-gathering in the submission of student Áine Mulligan (May 2020). Besides text #264 that she transcribed, Áine lists other printed versions of Whitehead’s text that are close contemporaries (1762 or 1763). |
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| Number of texts stored: 2 |
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- Text #265 / Source: Complete Edition ... Poets of Great Britain, 11 (1795), pp. 959-60
- Text #264 / Source: The Gentleman’s Magazine and Historical Chronicle, vol. 32 (London: D. Henry, 1762), 39.
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