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Literary Lives and Poetry

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Brief Lives Volume IJohn Aubrey's intimate biographical sketches of over 400 notable figures of the English Renaissance, from Shakespeare to Hobbes, compiled between 1669 and 1696.Brief Lives Volume IIThe most important collection of biographical sketches from 17th-century England. Volume II covers lives from I to Y, including Ben Jonson, Inigo Jones, John Milton, Isaac Newton, William Penn, Sir Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Edmund Waller, and Sir Christopher Wren.The Wonderfull YeareThomas Dekker's eyewitness pamphlet on the death of Queen Elizabeth and the Great Plague of London, 1603 — one of the masterworks of Jacobean prose.Works of Anne BradstreetThe first published poet in the American colonies — Puritan piety and tender domestic observation from the New World.