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Article: Henry Howard.(SHELF LIFE)(Poem)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- November 3, 2008
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HENRY HOWARD
He raised hell and broke windows, and even worse-The
worst sort of proud aristocrat.
If so, so what? He wrote the first blank verse
And some of our first sonnets. And if that
Were not enough to put us in his debt
Deeply and forever, he gave us more.
He saw to it that we should not ...