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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 28… (1911)

But in the farce Three Hours after Marriage (1717) attributed to Gay, but really the work of Pope, Arbuthnot and Gay, she is ridiculed as the learned lady, Phoebe Clinket, a character assigned to Pope's hand. Lady Winchelsea's poems were almost forgotten when Wordsworth in the “Essay, supplementary to the Preface” of his Poems (1815) , drew attention to her nature-poetry, asserting that with the exception of Pope's “Windsor Forest” and her “Nocturnal Reverie,” English poetry between Paradise Lost and Thomson's Seasons did not present “a single new image of external nature.”
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