John F. M. Dovaston's ‘Bookworms: How to Kill’

Bookworms have William Blake as their poet laureate, who satirized the rich's incurable habit of treasuring but never reading gorgeously-bound books. Here, Takahashi identifies another poet who might deserve the laurel more than Blake. John Freeman Milward Dovaston (1782-1854) also devoted a po...

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Published in:	Notes and queries Vol. 54; no. 2; pp. 178 - 179
Main Author:	Takahashi, Isamu
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford Oxford University Press 01-06-2007 Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
Subjects:	Blades, William Blake, William (1757-1827) Dovaston, John Freeman Milward (1782-1854) Errors Literary criticism Names Poetry Poets
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Summary:	Bookworms have William Blake as their poet laureate, who satirized the rich's incurable habit of treasuring but never reading gorgeously-bound books. Here, Takahashi identifies another poet who might deserve the laurel more than Blake. John Freeman Milward Dovaston (1782-1854) also devoted a poetical piece to those enemies of (antiquarian) books albeit rarely identified. More precisely, Dovaston's verse, though itself quite familiar to bibliophiles, has been erroneously attributed to a J. Doraston by the printer-bibliographer William Blades in his widely Enemies of Books (1880).
Bibliography:	istex:2B7903EEE4A94E264721D44030FF666B3C8FADEA ark:/67375/HXZ-NBR0L0R5-Q
ISSN:	0029-3970 1471-6941
DOI:	10.1093/notesj/gjm073