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COWPER William
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
English poets and their English cats - also, a hare, and a tortoise
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Thinking about literary animals, I have wandered into 18th century England, when the poets either had cats, or wrote about them, or both. He...
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Friday, February 29, 2008
Cowper - milk, and oats, and straw
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Epitaph on a Hare (1783), William Cowper Here lies, whom hound did ne'er pursue, Nor swifter greyhound follow, Whose footprints ne'...
Sunday, December 9, 2007
John Clare - not so nice to look at such
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from My Mary Who lives where beggars rarley speed? And leads a humdrum life indeed As none beside herself would lead? My Mary. Who lives whe...
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