Thomas Campion — a remark

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“A poet is not born, but made.”

Presenting poetry as a disciplined art developed through study and practice · Essay, Observations in the Art of English Poesie

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Thomas Campion

12 February 1567–1 March 1620

In the twilight of the Elizabethan era, when the English language was still finding its lyrical wings, when Shakespeare’s quill was etching immortality into parchment and the lute still whispered through candlelit chambers, there walked a man whose artistry shimmered with quiet brilliance — Thomas Campion. Born in…

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