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Tragedy of Captain William Leslie & Dr. Benjamin Rush.
The Loyalist Gazette
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March 22, 1999|
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The grave of Captain the Hon. William Leslie, second son of David, 6th Earl of Leven, is in a picturesque country churchyard. From time to time, despite the passing of two centuries, the young soldier still receives tributes of flowers and flags. But Willie is not at home in Fife -- in Monimail or Markinch, among his family: the church beside him is white clapboard, typically American. He lies in Pluckemin, New Jersey, where he was buried with full military honours on 5 January 1777, by the Rebels who had killed him two days previously, in the Battle of Princeton. The story of ...
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'But do not so': Herrick's ravishment and lyric address.(Robert Herrick, poet)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning' introduces a logic that presents an ithyphallic mistress whose 'firmnes makes [the poet's] circle just' as the couple endure their forced separation and who 'growes erect' on his return home (ll. 35, 32...
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The Dean prior duo ; Watching youngsters playing a soccer friendly on Paignton's North Green recently brought the poet Robert Herrick to mind.
Newspaper article from: Herald Express (Torquay UK)
; ...North Green recently brought the poet Robert Herrick to mind. Born in 1591, he died...far from Buckfastleigh. I had Herrick for company. The son of rich goldsmith...and I recalled reading some of Herrick's best poetry the night before...
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Marriage, celibacy, and ritual in Robert Herrick's 'Hesperides.'
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly
; ...two decades, Robert Herrick's relationship...insists that the poet "goes beyond...epithalamium allowed poets both to explore...instability. Herrick's epithalamia...analyses of Herrick's depictions...allude to the poet's political...
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Robert Herrick's fathers.
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
; ...Vedast in London. Yet Robert Herrick's only poem referring to him claims that the poet was unaware of the location...least two ways: Nicholas Herrick was buried quickly and...death were kept from Robert Herrick and possibly his siblings...
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Robert Herrick and the ambiguities of gender.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Texas Studies in Literature and Language
; Robert Herrick wrote hundreds of poems about...as wives and maidens for Herrick, and his attention to them...safe conventions. The women Herrick addresses in his verses are beautiful and fragrant; the poet compares them to goddesses...
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Herrick, Hollar, and the Tradescants: piecing together a seventeenth-century triptych.
Magazine article from: Criticism
; ...seventeenth-century contemporaries Robert Herrick the poet, Wenceslaus Hollar the engraver...curiosities for the rich and royal. Herrick, Hollar, and the elder Tradescant...the court of Charles I. Both Herrick and the elder Tradescant participated...
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Herrick, Hollar, and the Tradescants: piecing together a seventeenth-century triptych.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Criticism
; ...seventeenth-century contemporaries Robert Herrick the poet, Wenceslaus Hollar the engraver...curiosities for the rich and royal. Herrick, Hollar, and the elder Tradescant...the court of Charles I. Both Herrick and the elder Tradescant participated...
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Robert Herrick and the makings of 'Hesperides.'
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
; ...3) a number of Herrick's critics have rushed...trying to demonstrate that Herrick's poetry, particularly...publication of Coiro's book, Robert Herrick's "Hesperides" and...each "if" exposes the poet's lack of control over...
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Hollis Summers, a poet in passage.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Hollins Critic
; ...genius. While for the poets of the seventeenth century...Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren, among many...Jonson's contemporary Robert Herrick, who, in addition to...that Summers shares with Herrick. Elsewhere I suggest of the seventeenth-century poet what might well be ...
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In vino--et in amore--veritas: transformational animation in Herrick's "Sack" poems.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Papers on Language & Literature
; ...country village, lived Robert Herrick. With political, social...corner of England that Herrick sings of "Times trans...term that suggests the poet's concerns with such...simplicity and quietness, Herrick's world is animated...
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