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On this day: May 21st

  • Death of James Graham, Marquis of Montrose (1650)
  • Birth of Alexander Pope (1688)
  • Birth of John Hookham Frere (1769)
  • Death of Christopher Smart (1771)
  • Death of Thomas Warton the younger (1790)
  • Birth of Robert Creeley (1926)

Random Poem of the Day

Greek Architecture

Melville, Herman
1Not magnitude, not lavishness,
2But Form -- the Site;
3Not innovating wilfulness,
4But reverence for the Archetype.

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