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Poems on Several Occasions

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  • Beowulf
    In English literature: The court wits

    The posthumous Poems on Several Occasions (1689) includes deft poetry of friendship and love written with the familiar, colloquial ease of the Cavalier tradition and carefully observed, idiosyncratically executed descriptions of nature. He also added a second part to his friend Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler in…

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