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Mary Ethel Seaton
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BIOGRAPHY Honorary Fellow, St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford (1925–57). Author of Literary Relations of England and Scandinavia in the Seventeenth Century (1935) and Sir Richard Roos, c. 1410–1482 (1961); editor of Venus & Anchises (Brittain’s Ida) and Other Poems by Phineas Fletcher (1926) and The Arcadian Rhetorike by Abraham Fraunce (1950). Her article on Phineas Fletcher first appeared in the 14th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica in 1964 and was subsequently revised.
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Phineas Fletcher was an English poet best known for his religious and scientific poem The Purple Island; or, The Isle of Man (1633). The elder son of Giles Fletcher the Elder and brother of Giles Fletcher the Younger, he was educated at Eton and at King’s College, Cambridge. His pastoral drama…
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