| Description | Copy of the alliterative poem, each line composed of words commencing with the same letter, a-z, a, starting 'An Austrian army, awfully arrayed / Boldly by battery beseiged Belgrade'
With 'a specimen of alliterative literature' being a poem by an unidentified author titled 'To Agnes ... (who had lately been instrumental in founding a school and chapel at 'Angeli Acre' near Wigan)': the poem is composed with words in each of four lines beginning with the same letter, a-z, a
[Alaric Alexander Watts (1797-1864), poet and journalist] |