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-1731 ) DEFOE began his long career as an author in the year 1691 with a satirical poem of a political nature entitled A New Discovery of an Old Intreague . The next year there appeared in Charles Gildon's History of the Athenian ...
-1731 ) DEFOE began his long career as an author in the year 1691 with a satirical poem of a political nature entitled A New Discovery of an Old Intreague . The next year there appeared in Charles Gildon's History of the Athenian ...
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At the age of twenty he wrote his first poem , Oxford ( 1706 ) , in which he enthusiastically depicts his pleasant surroundings . Among his college companions were Edward Young , William Harrison , and John Philips .
At the age of twenty he wrote his first poem , Oxford ( 1706 ) , in which he enthusiastically depicts his pleasant surroundings . Among his college companions were Edward Young , William Harrison , and John Philips .
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a poem on cabbage . Pleased with the idea , he said : " You know there is already The Hop - Garden , a Poem ; and , I think one could say a great deal about cabbage . " On a memorable occasion he was moved to extreme wrath by being ...
a poem on cabbage . Pleased with the idea , he said : " You know there is already The Hop - Garden , a Poem ; and , I think one could say a great deal about cabbage . " On a memorable occasion he was moved to extreme wrath by being ...
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Contents
MATTHEW PRIOR I | 1 |
If wine and music | 7 |
The Female Phaeton | 15 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century |
| Editor | Cecil Albert Moore |
| Publisher | H. Holt, 1935 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 2 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 942 pages |
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