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A Touch of the Poet is a play by Eugene O'Neill. It and its sequel, More Stately Mansions , were intended to be part of a nine-play cycle entitled A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed. Set in the dining room of Melody's Tavern, located in a village a few miles from Boston, it centers on Major Cornelius Melody, a braggart, social climber, and victim of the American class system in 1828 Massachusetts. Einstein Books' edition of A Touch Of The Poet contains supplementary texts: An excerpt from O'Neill's More Stately Mansions , the sequel to A Touch Of The Poet . Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, By Lord Byron. (The poetry of Byron is a feature of A Touch Of The Poet). A Few Selected Quotes Of Eugene ONeill.
