The Writer of "the Burial of Sir John Moore" Discovered (Classic Reprint)

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There is no poem in the English language more often quoted in speech or printed in books, no poem about whose authorship there has been more controversy, none which grips more firmly both the mind of a child and the intellect of a cultivated scholar, ' than the immortal threnody, The Burial of Sir John Moore. The purpose of this pamphlet is to endeavour to prove that the ode was not written by the Rev. Charles Wolfe, but by a soldier of the 9th Regiment, named Joseph Wolfe, who was one of the party that actually dug Moore's grave. This necessarily involves the charge that the Rev. Charles Wolfe was an impostor.

A wish has been expressed that a full statement of the evidence of Charles Wolfe's claim should be printed. For eighty years the discussion of his pretensions has been waged in the literary press.

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