Did he write a verse/poem including Oh What A Tangeled Web

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Did he write a poem or verse that included the words "Oh What A tangleed web we weave....?

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2003

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No. Sounds like an anglicized version of Robert Burns, but I could be stupidly wrong.

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2003

Well I was right about it being a Scot. Sir Walter Scott in "Marmion". Close to Poe's time. For future reference these things are easy to find online at Bartleby's with links to such things as Bartlett's Quotations at which site the citation can be quickly found with some funny later variations by Ogden Nash and others.

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2003

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