Word: mlchael
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...writings are models of scientific exposition, thorough, simple, terse, lucid, graceful, having an occasional stroke of poetic beauty in epithet ; often rising into effortless and serene eloquence." But in poetry Harvard at this early day furnished the foremost as writers. She since has furnished Lowell and Emerson. Mlchael Wigglesworth, class of 1651 was in contemporaneous renown far above all other verse writers." He had "the genius of a true poet, his imagination had an epic strength, it was piercing, creative." Two other poets, worse rhymers, though greater men than Wigglesworth were John Rogers and Uriah Oakes ; both of the class...
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