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... poet . Fortunately he was of a harder , more practical nature than the gentle poet of Olney , and his re- ligious feeling was of a more robust kind . His father was col- lector of salt duties at the harbour of Aldeburgh , and he was ...
... poet . Fortunately he was of a harder , more practical nature than the gentle poet of Olney , and his re- ligious feeling was of a more robust kind . His father was col- lector of salt duties at the harbour of Aldeburgh , and he was ...
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... poet Southey and his family and the family of Coleridge , who was himself a wanderer , though sometimes he came to join the company . Wordsworth never became a popular poet , though there were many who rever- enced and loved him . In ...
... poet Southey and his family and the family of Coleridge , who was himself a wanderer , though sometimes he came to join the company . Wordsworth never became a popular poet , though there were many who rever- enced and loved him . In ...
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... POETS ( a ) Tennyson When Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837 the only famous poet in England was William Wordsworth , and he was an old man of sixty - seven , living a quiet , retired life in Westmorland . His best poems had been ...
... POETS ( a ) Tennyson When Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837 the only famous poet in England was William Wordsworth , and he was an old man of sixty - seven , living a quiet , retired life in Westmorland . His best poems had been ...
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CHAPTER PAGE I THE LAYS OF THE FIGHTINGMEN | 13 |
THE SINGERS OF THE CHURCH | 26 |
THE MONKS AND THEIR BOOKS | 32 |
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