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Thomas Nashe Summary
Thomas Nashe was a pamphleteer, poet, dramatist, and author of The Unfortunate Traveller; or, The Life of Jacke Wilton (1594), the first picaresque novel in English. Nashe was educated at the University of Cambridge, and about 1588 he went to London, where he became associated with Robert Greene
John Greenleaf Whittier Summary
John Greenleaf Whittier was an American poet and abolitionist who, in the latter part of his life, shared with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow the distinction of being a household name in both England and the United States. Born on a farm into a Quaker family, Whittier had only a limited formal
John Gay Summary
John Gay was an English poet and dramatist, chiefly remembered as the author of The Beggar’s Opera, a work distinguished by good-humoured satire and technical assurance. A member of an ancient but impoverished Devonshire family, Gay was educated at the free grammar school in Barnstaple. He was
Lucian Summary
Lucian was an ancient Greek rhetorician, pamphleteer, and satirist. One is entirely dependent on Lucian’s writings for information about his life, but he says little about himself—and not all that he says is to be taken seriously. Moreover, since the chronology of his works is very obscure, the