"[Lines on Dr Robert Smith]"

• Archive Work ID: poems.lods
• Uniform Title: "[Lines on Dr Robert Smith]" [e-text]
• First Line: Do you ask why old Focus Silvanus defies,
• Language: English
• First Published: 1902
• References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 74; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 280
• Summary: Written between 1742 and 1768, prompted presumably by a proposal by Dr Smith to cut down the Chestnut Walk at Trinity College, Cambridge. First published, entitled "Lines", in Gosse (ed.), Works, rev. ed. (1902), vol. i, 142.

1 Manuscript:

• • Archive MS ID: mss.0094 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [untitled]
  • Date: [between 1742 and 1768]
  • Physical Description: [1?] page; transcript[?]
  • Language: English
  • Location: [privately owned]
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 79, 86
  • Contents: A manuscript, here untitled, owned (1902) by Prof. Adam Sedgewick.