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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Edwin Atherstone (1788–1872)

Atherstone, Edwin. An English poet; born at Nottingham, England, April 17, 1788; died at Bath, Jan. 29, 1872. He was the author of ‘The Last Days of Herculaneum’ and ‘The Fall of Nineveh.’ In addition to these poems he wrote ‘Israel in Egypt’ and ‘The Handwriting on the Wall.’