biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1577–1640)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Lindley, Leicestershire, C England, UK. He studied at Oxford, then taught there, taking orders in 1614. His great work was the Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), a satire on the inefficacy of human learning and satire, which influenced many subsequent authors. |
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