Victorian

Frederick William Sawyer

1810–1875


Frederick William Sawyer (1810–1875) is remembered for a single piece of light verse, “The Recognition”, a parody of Tennyson’s manner.

Burton E. Stevenson included it under his name in The Home Book of Verse (1912), subtitled “After Tennyson”.

  1. The Recognition

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