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... poet . There was a brief engagement . Poe had close but platonic entanglements with Annie Richmond and with Sarah Anna Lewis , who helped him financially . He composed poetic tributes to all of them . In 1848 he also published the ...
... poet . There was a brief engagement . Poe had close but platonic entanglements with Annie Richmond and with Sarah Anna Lewis , who helped him financially . He composed poetic tributes to all of them . In 1848 he also published the ...
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... poet laureate , title first granted in England for poetic excellence . Its holder is a salaried member of the royal household , but the post has come to be free of specific poetic duties . The title of the office stems from a tradition ...
... poet laureate , title first granted in England for poetic excellence . Its holder is a salaried member of the royal household , but the post has come to be free of specific poetic duties . The title of the office stems from a tradition ...
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... poet , novelist , dramatist , and short- story writer ; he has often been considered his country's greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature . The early years . Pushkin's father came of an old boyar family ; his mother ...
... poet , novelist , dramatist , and short- story writer ; he has often been considered his country's greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature . The early years . Pushkin's father came of an old boyar family ; his mother ...
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