Ode to Spencer Perceval, Esq., M.P.
[Thomas Hood]
Genre: | Poetry, Satire |
Subjects: | Epidemiology, Medical Treatment, Government, Religion |
Discusses the Irvingite Perceval's call for days of national fasting in response to the spread of cholera. 'The best of our physicians, when they con it, / Depose the malady is in the air: / Oh, Mr. Spencer!—if the ill is there— / Why should you bid the people live upon it?' (71). | |
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