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"Edmund Spenser, (born 1552/53, London, England—died January 13, 1599, London), English poet whose long allegorical poem The Faerie Queene is one of the greatest in the English language. It was written in what came to be called the Spenserian stanza."

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Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, July 28, 1833

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