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Why So Pale and Wan
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No English poet has lived a life so public, so adventurous and so full of vicissitude ... Beautiful and vigorous in body, educated in all the accomplishments that grace a gentleman, endowed from earliest youth with the prestige of a soldier and a popular courtier, his enormous wealth enabled him to indulge every whim that a fondness for what was splendid or eccentric in dress, architecture and pageantry could devise. Such a life could present no void which literary ambition could fill, and Suckling's scorn for poetic fame was well known to his contemporaries. The English Poets (p. 170) by Thomas Humphry Ward, Macmillan (1882) |
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