By the eighteenth-century, print had become an important medium for linking disparate parts of empires, distributing revolutionary ideas, and fostering...
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Matthew Ghofrani nearly died when he experienced sudden cardiac arrest while running with his son along Hampton Beach on Memorial Day.
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Professor Cathy Shrank delves into the work of Elizabethan poet Richard Barnfield, who she believes deserves a wider audience.
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Chatterton could 'do' any poet from Chaucer to the recently dead Charles Churchill; and after his own death poets 'did' him.
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Five outstanding individuals have been awarded Honorary Degrees at the July graduation ceremonies including two Lancaster alumni.
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Seamus Heaney? Carol Ann Duffy? Andrew Motion? Not the perfect field, perhaps, of contenders for the office of Poet Laureate, to be decided...
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The Works of the British Poets, collated with the Best Editions: by Thomas Park FSA Vol XXXIX containing the poems of Scott and Thomas Warton.
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Thomas Warton (9 January 1728 – 21 May 1790) was an English literary historian, critic, and poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1785, following the...
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Thomas Warton, the Younger was a poet laureate from 1785 and author of the first history of English poetry. He was the brother of the poet and critic Joseph...
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