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Document Reference	Pw V 43/1 (pp 1-9)
Title	MS poem, entitled 'A Ballad Call'd a Session of Poets', not ascribed; n.d.
Level	Piece
Content Description	A detailed description of the volume in which this item appears can be found under the reference Pw V 43.
Content Description	Text consists of thirty-four 4-line verses. Also known by the title 'A Convention of ye Poets', see Pw V 40/57. A version of this poem appears in POAS 1 327-337 with 9 additional verses. The 'session' poem, in which poets, playwrights, court ladies or beaux were summoned to derisive judgement, was a popular satirical form in the Augustan period.
Title Of Work	A Ballad Call'd a Session of Poets. To the Tune of Cook Lawrell
First Line of Poem	Apollo Concern'd to see the Transgressions
Last Line of Poem	And leave 'em together by th'Ears for the Bayes
Language	English
Physical Description	For details of the physical evidence (paper, watermarks, binding etc) of the volume in which this item appears see the entry for Pw V 43.
Related Material	Crum, Index, A 1360
Related Material	University of Nottingham Library:Pw V 40/57
Publication Note	Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697) pp 206-11
	Poems of Affairs of State (London, 1698) pt 3, pp 304-12
	Poems on Affairs of State, vol I (1963), pp 327-37
	Simpson, The British Broadside Ballad, pp 129-33