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            <title>As a critic, the Poet Buchanan</title>
            <author>Dante Gabriel Rossetti</author>

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               <p>DGR wrote several versions of this limerick, <xref doc="a.37z-1869.blms.rad">the first</xref> in 1871 when the controversy over Buchanan's <xref doc="a.ap4.c7.18.rad" from="334" to="350">hostile review</xref> of DGR's 1870 <xref doc="a.1-1870.raw">
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