POLITICAL POETRY

["The Needy Knife-Grinder," which follows, was one of the most

notable contributions which appeared in "The Anti-Jacobin." It is

scarcely necessary to point out its satire upon the humanitarian

sympathies of those Englishmen who had been carried away by the

ideas of the French Revolution. The verses--a parody of Stanley's

"Sapphics"--were the joint production of George Canning and John

Hookham Frere.]

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