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John Milton - Everyman's Poetry
John Milton
Phoenix
ISBN : 9780460878135
Best known for his epic masterpiece Paradise Lost, Milton is also a master of subltle lyric harmony. He is one of the greatest writers of the 17th century, and of all time.
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Rudyard Kipling - Everyman's Poetry
Rudyard Kipling
Phoenix
ISBN : 9780460879415
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in Bombay in India and rose to fame writing in India in the late 19th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907. This collection includes the ever popular "If", along with the best of ...
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John Donne - Everyman's Poetry
John Donne
Phoenix
ISBN : 9780460879019
John Donne (1572-1631) was born into a Catholic family and studied law before sailing with Essex to attack Cadiz in 1596. He was appointed secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton, the Lord Keeper (later Lord Chancellor), in 1598, but forfeited his worldly ...
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Emily Dickinson - Everyman's Poetry
Emily Dickinson
Phoenix
ISBN : 9780460878951
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, the daughter of Edward Dickinson, a lawyer and politician. Despite receiving a good education, she returned home to Amherst, where she spent the rest of her life, at one time writing ...
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George Crabbe - Everyman's Poetry
George Crabbe
Phoenix
ISBN : 9780460882057
George Crabbe (1754-1832) published his first work annonymously whilst working as a labourer in Ipswich in 1775. He spent much of the rest of his career working as a clergyman in rural Suffolk and Wiltshire until his death, in Trowbridge, in 1832
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William Cowper - Everyman's Poetry
William Cowper
Phoenix
ISBN : 9780460879910
William Cowper (1731-1800) started righting poetry whilst studying law in the 1760's. Following a very public deterioration in his health he retired to the countryside, writing poetry and Hymns. He died in 1800 in Norfolk
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