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‘The House Remembers’ by Amy Foreman

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February 23, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Shape Poems
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                                      Amy Foreman...

Essay: On George Herbert’s ‘Easter Wings’

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March 25, 2018
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by Jane Blanchard George Herbert was born into a well-to-do and well-doing family of Montgomery, Wales, in 1593. When he was three years old, his father died, leaving a wife and ten children. Herbert...




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