Hannah Cowley (writer)
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Hannah Cowley was an English playwright and poet. Although Cowley's plays and poetry did not enjoy wide popularity after the 19th century, critic Melinda Finberg rates her as "one of the foremost play
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Della Cruscans
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The Della Cruscans were a circle of European late-18th-century sentimental poets founded by Robert Merry.
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…were sentimental and flirtatious. At first each did not even know the other's identity; later they met and became part of a poetic movement called the Della Cruscans. Literary history has not been kind to Della Cruscan poetry, which was criticised as sloppy and emotional. Merry was the subject of a satirical poem…
Porta a' Pinti English Cemetery, Florence, before 1827