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Restoration & Augustan

John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

1648–1721

John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave and later Duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1648–1721), was an English statesman and poet, a patron of Dryden and the author of An Essay upon Poetry and An Essay upon Satire.

Arthur Quiller-Couch included two of his lyrics in The Oxford Book of English Verse (1900).

Poems (3)

  1. The Reconcilement
  2. On One who died discovering her Kindness
  3. Come, Celia, let's agree at last

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