EUROPEAN ELEGIES
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Auguste Angellier (1848–1911), French scholar and poet. A professor of English literature, and the chief authority on the life and works of Robert Burns.
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Didericus Dorbeck, born Schager, Holland, in 1815. A physician, who wrote a number of fugitive poems and stories. Died at Alkmaar, 1888.
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Théodore de Banville, born at Moulins, France, 1823. A great stylist and master of metre, though lacking in intellectual power. Died in Paris, 1891.
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See No. 22, above.
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Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585), the chief Renaissance poet of France. Intimately associated with the French court. Displayed magnificence of language and a virtuoso’s skill in metre.
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Anthero de Quental, Portuguese poet, born 1842 in the Azores. Studied at the University of Coimbra. A political agitator. One of the world’s greatest sonnet-writers. Spinal disease finally drove him to suicide in 1891.
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Duncan MacIntyre, Gaelic poet, born 1724 at Druimliaghart, Argyllshire. Fought at Falkirk, 1745. Forester to the Earl of Breadalbane, later to the Duke of Argyll. Natural poet, rather than a cultivated one. Died at Edinburgh in 1812.
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Theodor Kjerulf, Norwegian geologist and poet, born at Christiania in 1825. Professor of Geology in the University of Christiania, and founder of the national geological survey. Died 1888.
