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George Crabbe

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George Crabbe (24 December 1754 – 3 February 1832) was an English poet, surgeon and clergyman. [1]

101 relations: Abraham Cowley, Aldeburgh, Alexander Pope, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Allington, Lincolnshire, Archbishop of Canterbury, Augustan literature, Beaconsfield, Beccles, Belvoir Castle, Benjamin Britten, Blackwood's Magazine, Bowood House, Bungay, Bury St Edmunds, Calosoma sycophanta, Charles James Fox, Charles Lamb, Clifton, Bristol, Coleopterology, Dorothea Jordan, Dorset, Dublin, Dudley Long North, Duke of Rutland, Edinburgh Review, Edmund Burke, Edmund Spenser, Edward FitzGerald (poet), Evershot, Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, Frome St Quintin, George IV of the United Kingdom, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Gordon Riots, Great Glemham, Hampstead, Henry Crabb Robinson, Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland, Henry William Pickersgill, Heroic couplet, Ipswich, James Boswell, Jane Austen, Joanna Baillie, John Gibson Lockhart, John Milton, John Murray (publisher), John Nichols (printer), John Wilson (Scottish writer), ..., Joshua Reynolds, Lake Poets, Leicestershire, Llandaff, Loddon, Norfolk, London, Lord Byron, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Marquess of Lansdowne, Muston, Leicestershire, Neuralgia, Orford, Suffolk, Peter Grimes, Pucklechurch, Q. D. Leavis, Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, Rendham, Robert Southey, Samuel Hoare Jr, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Rogers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sarah Siddons, Stathern, Leicestershire, Stowmarket, Suffolk, T. S. Eliot, The Borough (George Crabbe poem), The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, The Guardian, The Heart of Midlothian, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, The Traveller (poem), The Village (poem), Thomas Campbell (poet), Trinity College, Cambridge, Trowbridge, University of Cambridge, Vale of Belvoir, Walter Raleigh, Walter Scott, Waverley Novels, Whigs (British political party), Wickhambrook, William Caldwell Roscoe, William Hazlitt, William Lisle Bowles, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Wiltshire, Woodbridge, Suffolk. Expand index (51 more) »

Abraham Cowley

Abraham Cowley (161828 July 1667) was an English poet born in the City of London late in 1618.

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Aldeburgh

Aldeburgh is a coastal town in the English county of Suffolk.

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Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.

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Allington, Lincolnshire

Allington is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.

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Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.

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Augustan literature

Augustan literature (sometimes referred to misleadingly as Georgian literature) is a style of British literature produced during the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I, and George II in the first half of the 18th century and ending in the 1740s, with the deaths of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, in 1744 and 1745, respectively.

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Beaconsfield

Beaconsfield is a market town and civil parish within the South Bucks district in Buckinghamshire centred WNW of London and SSE of the county's administrative town, Aylesbury.

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Beccles

Beccles is a market town and civil parish in the Waveney District of the English county of Suffolk.

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Belvoir Castle

Belvoir Castle is a stately home in the English county of Leicestershire, overlooking the Vale of Belvoir.

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Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist.

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Blackwood's Magazine

Blackwood's Magazine was a British magazine and miscellany printed between 1817 and 1980.

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Bowood House

Bowood is a grade I listed Georgian country house with interiors by Robert Adam and a garden designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown.

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Bungay

Bungay is a market town and electoral ward in the English county of Suffolk.

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Bury St Edmunds

Bury St Edmunds is a historic market town and civil parish in the in St Edmundsbury district, in the county of Suffolk, England.

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Calosoma sycophanta

The Calosoma sycophanta or forest caterpillar hunter is a ground beetle belonging to the family Carabidae.

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Charles James Fox

Charles James Fox (24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806), styled The Honourable from 1762, was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and who was the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger.

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Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847).

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Clifton, Bristol

Clifton is both a suburb of Bristol, England, and the name of one of the city's thirty-five council wards.

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Coleopterology

Coleopterology (from Coleoptera and Greek -λογία, -logia) is a branch of entomology, the scientific study of beetles of the order Coleoptera.

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Dorothea Jordan

Dorothea Jordan (22 November 17615 July 1816) also known as Mrs Jordan, was an Anglo-Irish actress, courtesan, and the mistress and companion of the future King William IV of the United Kingdom, for 20 years while he was Duke of Clarence.

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Dorset

Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of and largest city in Ireland.

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Dudley Long North

Dudley Long North (14 March 1748 – 21 February 1829) was an English Whig politician.

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Duke of Rutland

Duke of Rutland is a title in the Peerage of England, derived from Rutland, a county in the East Midlands of England.

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Edinburgh Review

The Edinburgh Review has been the title of four distinct intellectual and cultural magazines.

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Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke (12 January 17309 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman born in Dublin, as well as an author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, who after moving to London in 1750 served as a member of parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons with the Whig Party.

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Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser (1552/1553 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and is often considered one of the greatest poets in the English language.

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Edward FitzGerald (poet)

Edward FitzGerald (31 March 1809 – 14 June 1883) was an English poet and writer, best known as the poet of the first and most famous English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

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Evershot

Evershot is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England, situated in the West Dorset administrative district approximately south of Yeovil in Somerset.

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Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey (23 October 1773 – 26 January 1850) was a Scottish judge and literary critic.

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Frome St Quintin

Frome St Quintin is a village in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated in the West Dorset administrative district approximately northwest of the county town Dorchester.

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George IV of the United Kingdom

George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover following the death of his father, King George III, on 29 January 1820, until his own death ten years later.

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Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Gonville & Caius College (often referred to simply as Caius) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.

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Gordon Riots

The Gordon Riots of 1780 was a massive anti-Catholic protest in London against the Papists Act of 1778, which was intended to reduce official discrimination against British Catholics.

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Great Glemham

Great Glemham is a village and a civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the English county of Suffolk.

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Hampstead

Hampstead, commonly known as Hampstead Village, is an area of London, England, northwest of Charing Cross.

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Henry Crabb Robinson

Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) was an English lawyer known as a diarist.

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Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland

Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland, of Holland, and 3rd Baron Holland, of Foxley PC (21 November 1773 – 22 October 1840) was an English politician and a major figure in Whig politics in the early 19th century.

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Henry William Pickersgill

Henry William Pickersgill RA (3 December 1782 – 21 April 1875) was an English painter specialising in portraits.

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Heroic couplet

A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used in epic and narrative poetry, and consisting of a rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter.

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Ipswich

Ipswich is the county town of Suffolk, England, located on the estuary of the River Orwell, about north east of London.

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James Boswell

James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (29 October 1740 – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer and diarist, born in Edinburgh.

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

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Joanna Baillie

Joanna Baillie (11 September 176223 February 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist, known for works including Plays on the Passions (three volumes, 1798-1812) and Fugitive Verses (1840).

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John Gibson Lockhart

John Gibson Lockhart (14 July 1794 – 25 November 1854) was a Scottish writer and editor.

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John Milton

John Milton (9 December 16088 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell.

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John Murray (publisher)

John Murray is a British publisher, known for the authors it has published in its history, including Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Charles Lyell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Melville, Edward Whymper, and Charles Darwin.

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John Nichols (printer)

John Nichols (2 February 1745 – 26 November 1826) was an English printer, author and antiquary.

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John Wilson (Scottish writer)

John Wilson of Elleray FRSE (18 May 1785 – 3 April 1854) was a Scottish advocate, literary critic and author, the writer most frequently identified with the pseudonym Christopher North of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.

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Joshua Reynolds

Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter, specialising in portraits.

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Lake Poets

The Lake Poets were a group of English poets who all lived in the Lake District of England, United Kingdom, in the first half of the nineteenth century.

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Leicestershire

Leicestershire (abbreviation Leics.) is a landlocked county in the English Midlands.

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Llandaff

Llandaff (Llandaf); from llan 'church' and Taf, is a district, community and coterminous electoral ward in the north of Cardiff, capital of Wales.

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Loddon, Norfolk

Loddon is a small market town and electoral ward about southeast of Norwich on the River Chet, a tributary of the River Yare within The Broads in Norfolk, England.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known as Lord Byron, was an English nobleman, poet, peer, politician, and leading figure in the Romantic movement.

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Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Lord Lieutenant of Ireland was the title of the chief governor of Ireland from the Williamite Wars of 1690 till the Partition of Ireland in 1922.

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Marquess of Lansdowne

Marquess of Lansdowne is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain created in 1784, and held by the head of the Petty-FitzMaurice family.

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Muston, Leicestershire

Muston (pronounced Musson) is a village in north-east Leicestershire, 18.6 miles (30 km) east of Nottingham and five miles (8 km) west of Grantham on the A52.

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Neuralgia

Neuralgia (Greek neuron, "nerve" + algos, "pain") is pain in the distribution of a nerve or nerves, as in intercostal neuralgia, trigeminal neuralgia, and glossopharyngeal neuralgia.

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Orford, Suffolk

Orford is a small town in Suffolk, England, within the Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB.

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Peter Grimes

Peter Grimes is an opera by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto adapted by Montagu Slater from the narrative poem, "Peter Grimes," in George Crabbe's book The Borough.

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Pucklechurch

Pucklechurch is a large village and civil parish in South Gloucestershire, England, ENE of the city of Bristol and NW of the city of Bath.

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Q. D. Leavis

Queenie Dorothy Leavis (née Roth, 7 December 1906 – 17 March 1981) was an English literary critic and essayist.

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Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary is a large American dictionary, first published in 1966 as The Random House Dictionary of the English Language: The Unabridged Edition.

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Rendham

Rendham is a village and civil parish on the B1119 road, in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the English county of Suffolk.

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Robert Southey

Robert Southey (or 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the "Lake Poets" along with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and England's Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 until his death in 1843.

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Samuel Hoare Jr

Samuel Hoare Jr (9 August 1751 – 14 July 1825) was a wealthy British Quaker banker and abolitionist born in Stoke Newington, then to the north of London.

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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson LL.D. (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr.

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Samuel Rogers

Samuel Rogers (30 July 1763 – 18 December 1855) was an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Romantic colleagues and friends Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.

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Sarah Siddons

Sarah Siddons (née Kemble; 5 July 1755 – 8 June 1831) was a Welsh-born actress, the best-known tragedienne of the 18th century.

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Stathern, Leicestershire

Stathern is a village and civil parish in the Melton district of Leicestershire, England.

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Stowmarket

Stowmarket is a small market town in Suffolk, England,OS Explorer map 211: Bury St.Edmunds and Stowmarket Scale: 1:25 000.

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Suffolk

Suffolk is an East Anglian county of historic origin in England.

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T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".

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The Borough (George Crabbe poem)

The Borough is a collection of poems by George Crabbe published in 1810.

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The Cambridge History of English and American Literature

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature is an encyclopedia of literary criticism that was published by Cambridge University Press between 1907 and 1921.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Heart of Midlothian

The Heart of Midlothian is the seventh of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Novels.

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The Lay of the Last Minstrel

"The Lay of the Last Minstrel" (1805) is a long narrative poem by Walter Scott.

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The Traveller (poem)

The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society (1764) is a philosophical poem by Oliver Goldsmith.

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The Village (poem)

The Village is a narrative poem by George Crabbe, published in 1783.

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Thomas Campbell (poet)

Thomas Campbell (27 July 1777 – 15 June 1844) was a Scottish poet chiefly remembered for his sentimental poetry dealing especially with human affairs.

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Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England.

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Trowbridge

Trowbridge is the county town of Wiltshire, England on the River Biss in the west of the county, south east of Bath, Somerset, from which it is separated by the Mendip Hills, which rise to the west.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

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Vale of Belvoir

The Vale of Belvoir is an area of natural beauty on the borders of Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire in England.

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Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh (or; circa 155429 October 1618) was an English landed gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer.

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Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, poet and historian.

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Waverley Novels

The Waverley Novels are a long series of novels by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832).

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Whigs (British political party)

The Whigs were a political faction and then a political party in the parliaments of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.

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Wickhambrook

Wickhambrook is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England.

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William Caldwell Roscoe

William Caldwell Roscoe (1823–1859) was an English journalist and poet.

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William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English writer, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher.

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William Lisle Bowles

William Lisle Bowles (24 September 17627 April 1850) was an English priest, poet and critic.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

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Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a county in South West England with an area of.

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Woodbridge, Suffolk

Woodbridge is a town in Suffolk, East Anglia, England, about from the sea coast.

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References

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