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===Modern period=== Examples from the 19th century are the transposition of "[[Horatio Nelson]]" into ''Honor est a Nilo'' (Latin: Honor is from the [[Battle of the Nile|Nile]]); and of "[[Florence Nightingale]]" into "Flit on, cheering angel".<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Anagram |volume=1 |page=910}}</ref> The Victorian love of anagramming as recreation is alluded to by the mathematician [[Augustus De Morgan]]<ref>In his ''[[A Budget of Paradoxes]]'', p. 82.</ref> using his own name as an example; "Great Gun, do us a sum!" is attributed to his son [[William De Morgan]], but a family friend [[John T. Graves|John Thomas Graves]] was prolific, and a manuscript with over 2,800 has been preserved.<ref>Robert Edoward Moritz, ''On Mathematics and Mathematicians'' (2007), p. 151.</ref><ref>Anna Stirling, ''William De Morgan and His Wife'' (1922) p. 64.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/13/3491.htm |title=AIM25 home page |access-date=6 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606051531/http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/13/3491.htm |archive-date=6 June 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> With the advent of [[surrealism]] as a poetic movement, anagrams regained the artistic respect they had had in the [[Baroque period]]. The German poet [[Unica Zürn]], who made extensive use of anagram techniques, came to regard obsession with anagrams as a "dangerous fever", because it created isolation of the author.<ref>Friederike Ursula Eigler, Susanne Kord, The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature (1997), pp. 14–5.</ref> The surrealist leader [[André Breton]] coined the anagram ''Avida Dollars'' for [[Salvador Dalí]], to tarnish his reputation by the implication of commercialism.
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