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AND Politics of Author: "From Tory to Whig"

AND Nationality of Author: "English"

AND Genre: "Poetry"

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AND Literary Period: "Long Eighteenth Century"

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Date: 1727, 1787

"Oak was his heart, his breast with steel / Thrice mail'd, that first the brittle keel / Committed to the murtherous deep."

— Welsted, Leonard (1688-1747)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.