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LITERARY SECTION
Viscount Castlereagh (Robert Stewart Castlereagh) was British minister of war and foreign secretary during the Napoleonic wars. He was very unpopular and commited suicide. A couple of verses written by poets of whom you should have heard follow: Posterity shall ne’er surveyA nobler grave than this. Here lie the bones of Castlereagh, Stop, traveller, and piss. Lord Byron. As I saw death along the way, He wore the mask of Castlereagh. Shelley. |
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