| Front | William Alabaster |
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| Back | 1567-1640 divine, scholar, mystical exegete and poet his Seneca Latin tragedy, Roxana 1592 and printed 1632 Dr Johnson praised it as the only Latin work by an Englishman worthy of note before Milton's elegies. Elegies, his unfinished Latin epic glorifying Elizabeth 1 was praised by Spenser in Colin Clout's Come Home Again although Spenser's comment that Alabaster was then 'known to few' is still true. his devotional poems were not printed in his lifetime. they're metaphysical in their tone and their use of paradox and typology; many resemble the religious poems of John donne. |
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