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Newspaper
Champion
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 21, 1816
Page
3
The verse hails a birth with sincere joy and calm skies. Nature is pictured in springtime splendor as fields wear coronets of primroses and violets. Enfield notes February 21 1816 and celebrates the occasion with affectionate, luminous imagery.
A poem laments the red cap worn by transported convicts praising the transport crew and reprieve. It contrasts the cap with the hangman’s rope, invokes Newgate, Jack Ketch, and Whip’s colors, and argues convicts deserve honor in death and punishment’s end.
A critical appraisal of Mr Wilson and his dramatic poem The City of the Plague set in London venues like Aldgate and St. Pauls, noting discordant verse, boldness over taste, and vivid scenes with characters such as Frankfort Wilmot and Captain Edward Walsingham, including a gruesome graveyard theater and a spectral heaven linked procession.
The piece condemns Mr Wilson's poem for its shocking cemetery scenes and grotesque depictions of decay. It argues such material corrupts taste, undermines virtue, and profits from sensationalism. The critic questions whether seclusion and refinement excuse these morbid portraits and urges readers to avoid endorsing them.
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