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Alexander Barclay, English Literature, 1500 To 1799, Biographies

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Alexander Barclay[bAr´klE, –klA] Pronunciation Key, 1475?–1552, Scottish clergyman and poet. Although the first to write pastoral eclogues in English, he is best known for The Ship of Fools (1509), a translation and elongation of Sebastian Brant's widely popular poem Das Narrenschiff.



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