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David Mallet

"The Transfiguration. In Imitation of Milton's Style." "Celestial Dove! the Muse heav'n-born inspire." (25.52). A footnote states that the poem "is not collected into Mallet's works." R.D. Havens, The Influence of Milton on English Poetry (1922), p. 638 gives 1721 as the date of composition and the 1794 EM (vol. 25) as the place of publication. The poem was unknown to


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Alexander Chalmers, The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper, 21 vols., 1810; Havens does not quote from it.