ROGERS, Samuel.

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The Pleasures of Memory. First edition, published anonymously, of one of Roger's most beloved poems. Byron, "perhaps Rogers's most notable admirer" (ODNB), praised it in a letter to Thomas Moore: "His elegance is really wonderful - there is no such thing as a vulgar line in the book"."The two-part poem, written in elegant but relaxed heroic couplets, begins with a nostalgic tour around the village of Rogers's childhood, and moves through various scenes to explore and illustrate the 'associating principle', of the faculty of memory. It concludes with a poignant invocation to Rogers's dead brother Thomas" (ODNB).

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