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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
(1828-1882) Poet and painter, was b. in London. His f. was Gabriele Rossetti, an Italian scholar, w...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
(1545?-1630)
Poet, s. of a ropemaker, was b. at Saffron Walden, ed. at Camb., and became the friend of Spenser, being the Hobbinol of The Shepheard's Calendar. He wrote various satirical pieces, sonnets, and pamphlets. Vain and ill-tempered, he was a remorseless critic of others, and was involved in perpetual controversy, specially with Greene and Nash, the latter of whom was able to silence him. He wrote treatises on rhetoric, claimed to have introduced hexameters into English, was a foe to rhyme, and persuaded Spenser temporarily to abandon it.
(1828-1882) Poet and painter, was b. in London. His f. was Gabriele Rossetti, an Italian scholar, w...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin