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The article focuses on the two poems by William Lisle Bowles which were reprinted in the "Gentleman's Magazine," but their original place of publication varied. Both are concerned with memory and the imagination. The first poem is without a title, but forms what William Wordsworth called "an antiquarian dream." It was published in Richard Colt Hoare's "The Ancient History of South Wiltshire." The second poem is precisely dated, and was first published, apparently within a week of composition, in the "Bath Chronicle," 13 August 1812, over the initials "W.L.B."

The article discusses the use of Biblical quotations in the titles of poems written by Christina Rossetti, particularly those appearing in the 1875 poetry book "Goblin Market, the Prince's Progress, and Other Poems." The source of the title for the poem "When My Heart Is Vexed, I Will Complain" is unknown, though scholar Betty Flowers has surmised that it may be an allusion to a line in the Book of Job in the Bible. It is also considered whether the title may be derived from Psalm 77:3b, in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.

The article offers a look at the life of Christiana Coward, the postmistress at Bockhampton, whose name was identified in the subtitle of the poem "Geographical Knowledge" by Thomas Hardy. According to the article, the poem is about a sailor's mother. Census research indicates that Coward had a son who was a sailor in the Royal Navy Reserve.