Della Cruscans
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The Della Cruscans were a circle of European late-18th-century sentimental poets founded by Robert Merry.
Porta a' Pinti English Cemetery, Florence, before 1827
Bertie Greatheed
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Bertie Greatheed was an English dramatist, slave owner and landowner.
Della Cruscans
…Italian, and French. The name is taken from the Florentine Accademia della Crusca, an organization founded in 1583 to "purify" the Italian language. Bertie Greatheed's "The Dream" opens the collection with an indictment of the current deplorable state of poetry and calls for a return to a Miltonic style. The call…
Bertie Greatheed by John Jackson in 1821