biography
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| lived:
| (1593–1633)
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| biography:
| Clergyman and poet, born at Montgomery Castle, Powys, E Wales, UK. He studied at Cambridge, where he was public orator (1619), and became an MP before entering the Church (1630), serving as parish priest of Bemerton, Wiltshire. Nearly all his surviving poems in English (he also wrote in Greek and Latin) were collected in The Temple (1633), and his chief prose work, A Priest to the Temple, was published in Remains (1652). He is now accepted as one of the greatest English metaphysical poets. |
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