The dating of Carlyle's "Peter Nimmo"

Chris R. Vanden Bossche, Professor of English, University of Notre Dame

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[Chapter 2, note 4, of the author's Carlyle and the Search for Authority, which the Ohio State University Press published in 1991. It appears in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright. indicates a link to material not in the original print version. GPL]

G. B. Tennyson dates the poem before 1825, and David Masson dates it before 1821 (Tennyson, 62, n. 45). Tarr and McClelland agree that, although the poem could have been composed as late as 1830, the early 1820s seems the most likely date 135-36).

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