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Robert Herrick

Herrick was superficially a good deal like his near-contemporary George Herbert: a poet and clergyman educated at Cambridge. But, markedly unlike the pious and saintly Herbert, Herrick was much better at

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Featured Poem

Delight in Disorder

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Poets Book of Days

April 27

Jessie Redmon Fauset born, 1882

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

Whose brain was dropped on the floor, once he had died and left it to science?

Answer

Walt Whitman's. Thomas Lux has written a poem about it "Walt Whiman's Brain Dropped on Laboratory Floor."

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