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Page 182
... poet and author and father of the poets Phineas and Giles Fletcher , who published an interesting account of his visit to Russia . Educated at Eton and at King's Col- lege , Cambridge , he was employed on diplo- matic service in ...
... poet and author and father of the poets Phineas and Giles Fletcher , who published an interesting account of his visit to Russia . Educated at Eton and at King's Col- lege , Cambridge , he was employed on diplo- matic service in ...
Page 288
... poet . He was the original repre- sentative of the school of middle class poets who succeeded the knightly minnesingers , or love poets , adapting the minnesinger tradi- tions to poems dealing with theological mys- teries , scientific ...
... poet . He was the original repre- sentative of the school of middle class poets who succeeded the knightly minnesingers , or love poets , adapting the minnesinger tradi- tions to poems dealing with theological mys- teries , scientific ...
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... poet , best known for his poems in defense of the Prophet Muhammad . Hassan was the official poet of the Ghassan court at Jilliq , northern Arabia , where he met the poets an - Nabighah and ' Alqamah . He also spent some time at the ...
... poet , best known for his poems in defense of the Prophet Muhammad . Hassan was the official poet of the Ghassan court at Jilliq , northern Arabia , where he met the poets an - Nabighah and ' Alqamah . He also spent some time at the ...
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