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Born December 26, 1716 • London • England
Died July 30, 1771 (aged 54) • Cambridge • England
Notable Works “An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard” • “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College” • “The Bard” • “The Progress of Poesy”
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