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| Cotton, Charles |
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| 163087, English author. He is chiefly remembered for his contribution to his friend Izaak Waltons Compleat Angler (5th ed. 1676). His pleasant, unaffected verse includes An Ode to Winter and The Retirement. He also wrote burlesques of Vergil (1664) and Lucian (1665) and a translation of Montaignes Essays (168586). |
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