Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687

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Dates:
Birth 1630-04-28
Death 1687-02-16
Britons,
English,

Biographical notes:

Epithet: poet and writer

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Epithet: Dr

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Epithet: senior

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Charles Cotton (1630-1667) was a poet, satirist, and translator of Triquet's Complete Gardiner and Montaigne's Essays who also contributed "The Second Part" to the 1676 edition of Isaak Walton's Complete Angler. "An Elegy upon the Death of....Lord Hastings" is his first published poem.

From the description of An elegy upon the death of that hopeful and learned gentleman Henry Lord Hastings, who died of the small pox, [1649]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702182350

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Subjects:

  • Elegaic poetry, English
  • English literature
  • English poetry

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Places:

  • Staffordshire, England (as recorded)
  • Beresford Hall, Staffordshire (as recorded)
  • Tottenham, Middlesex (as recorded)
  • Gloucester, Gloucesterhire (as recorded)
  • France (as recorded)
  • Beresford Hall, Staffordshire (as recorded)

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