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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|1827 poem by Robert Pollok}}<br />
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| name = The Course of Time<br />
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| author = [[Robert Pollok (poet)|Robert Pollok]]<br />
| illustrator = [[John Tenniel]], [[Myles Birket Foster]], and [[Clayton and Bell|J. R. Clayton]] (1857 edition)<ref name=munlibrary>{{cite web | url = http://info.library.mun.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?user_id=REMOTEWEB&searchdata1=ocm01956763 | title = The Course of Time : a poem / by Robert Pollok | accessdate = 2007-05-17 | work = [[Memorial University of Newfoundland|Memorial University]] Libraries Catalogue}}</ref><br />
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| country = [[Scotland]]<br />
| language = [[English language|English]]<br />
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| genre = [[Blank verse]] poetry<br />
| publisher = [[William Blackwood]] and Sons<ref name=munlibrary/><br />
| release_date = 1827<br />
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'''''The Course of Time''''' is a ten-book [[poem]] in [[blank verse]], first published in 1827.<ref name=electric>{{cite web<br />
| url = http://www.electricscotland.com/history/other/pollok_robert.htm<br />
| title = Significant Scots; Robert Pollok<br />
| accessdate = 2007-05-02<br />
| work = Electric Scotland<br />
}}</ref> It was the last published and most famous work of Scottish poet [[Robert Pollok (poet)|Robert Pollok]]. The first edition of the poem sold 12,000 copies, and by its fourth edition it had sold 78,000 copies and become well known even in [[North America]].<ref>{{cite web<br />
| url = http://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst605.html<br />
| title = Robert Pollok 1798 - 1827<br />
| accessdate = 2007-05-02<br />
| work = Gazetteer for Scotland<br />
}}</ref><br />
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Pollok himself died in September 1827, only a few months after the poem was published.<br />
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An [[Illustration|illustrated]] edition was published in 1857, featuring the work of [[John Tenniel]], [[Myles Birket Foster]], and [[Clayton and Bell|J. R. Clayton]].<ref name=munlibrary/><br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSauxVFY0Rk Video footage of the Robert Pollok Centenary Monument]<br />
* [http://collections.mun.ca/u?/bindings,198 Images and description of the 1857 edition] at the [[Memorial University of Newfoundland|Memorial University]] Digital Archive.<br />
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