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... mother was allied to some of the noblest families in England , and could trace her descent from Henry III . Dr. Cowper was chaplain to George II . , and also rector of the parish in which the poet was born . From his birth Cowper was a ...
... mother , Miss Gordon , a Scottish heiress , was the second wife of Captain Byron , the poet's father . By a former marriage with Lady Carmarthen , Captain Byron had one daughter , the Honourable Augusta Byron ; and between this sister ...
... mother , and though he hastened to Newstead Abbey he was too late to see her alive . His grief at her death was such as to surprise those who knew how little of a mother's tenderness he had ever experienced . In the spring of 1812 ...
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Geoffrey Chaucer13281400 | 9 |
Sir Thomas More14801534 | 17 |
Edmund Spenser15521599 | 25 |
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