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Document Reference	Pw V 186
Title	MS poem, entitled 'The Vision a Poem', by Daniel Defoe; 1706
Date	Nov 1706 (c)
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Text consists of fourteen 9-line verses. Notes in the margin gloss the text at 18 different points. Most of these are additional to the glosses in Defoe's own autograph (Pw V 187), although the copy here has been identified as secondary. A note in a different hand has added 'No 10. WJ' in the top left corner of f 1.
Title Of Work	The Vision a Poem
First Line of Poem	Come hither ye dreamer of dreams
Last Line of Poem	To tell If he shew'd us, lesse Manners or brains
Language	English
Term	parliament, the Union, 1707
Physical Description	One sheet folded once to form two folios
Condition	Good
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Arms of Amsterdam and cartouche with letters RCT, 113 x 80 mm. Italic
Watermark	Arms of Amsterdam
Related Material	Index, ELM III, DeD 9
	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 187
	University of Nottingham Library:
Publication Note	F. H. Ellis, 'Notes for an Edition of Defoe's Verse', Review of English Studies, new series vol 32 (1981) pp 398-407
	D. Defoe, The Vision (?Edinburgh, 1706)
	POAS, VII (1975), pp 214-220
	Defoe, Daniel, The Vision (?Edinburgh, 1706) & Poems on Affairs of State, vol VII (1975), pp 214-20

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA74429	Hamilton; John (1656-1708); 2nd Lord Belhaven	1656-1708
NA1114	Defoe; Daniel (1661-1731); poet and writer	1661-1731

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