Talk:The Vanity of Human Wishes

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Did you know... that Walter Scott and T. S. Eliot declared The Vanity of Human Wishes as Samuel Johnson's greatest poem?

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My copy of the Yale Poems arrived, and it has a photo of a page of the MS. Unfortunately I have no way of scanning it, as my PC is in storage, my Mac doesn't have the printer software installed, and I have in any case lost the CD-ROM with the printer software on it. If it turns up I will scan the page and put it up there. Lexo (talk) 14:11, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The eminent Latinist and Juvenal scholar Professor RGM (Robin) Nisbet used to say that this poem was much superior to its model in Juvenal X. (11:13, 28 July 2017 (UTC)Seadowns (talk)I can only give my memory as a source.)