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#OTD in 1796.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge launches his periodical The Watchman; it lasts for only ten issues. In April his first verse collection, Poems on Various Subjects, is published in London. The publication contained essays, poems, news stories, reports on Parliamentary debates, and book reviews.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Watchman_(periodical)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poems_on_Various_Subjects

The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29090

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