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WILLIAM THOMAS FITZGERALD (1759-1829)
"An Address to England on Nelson's death," a 44 line manuscript poem on 3pp., 4°, with integral blank, apparently unpublished, signed and dated Nov. 7 1805.
According to DNB, Fitzgerald's more notable productions were "either prologues for plays or appeals to England's loyalty and valour. These latter he was in the habit of reciting year after year, at the public dinners of the Literary Fund." Byron ensured his immortality by referring to this habit in the first couplet of England's Bards and Scotch Reviewers: 'Still must I hear? -- shall hoarse Fitzgerald bawl/His creaking couplets in a tavern hall?'"
"An Address to England on Nelson's death," a 44 line manuscript poem on 3pp., 4°, with integral blank, apparently unpublished, signed and dated Nov. 7 1805.
According to DNB, Fitzgerald's more notable productions were "either prologues for plays or appeals to England's loyalty and valour. These latter he was in the habit of reciting year after year, at the public dinners of the Literary Fund." Byron ensured his immortality by referring to this habit in the first couplet of England's Bards and Scotch Reviewers: 'Still must I hear? -- shall hoarse Fitzgerald bawl/His creaking couplets in a tavern hall?'"
