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                                       Thomas Campion(1567-1620)

-a law student, a phycian, a composer, a writer of masques and a poet
-His love of versification
-Observations in the Art of English Poesy: defending quantitative verse;
                         disparaging the accentual, rhymed verse characteristic of
                         poetry in English
-peoms: My Sweetest Lesbia
              When to Her Lute Corinna Sings
              There is a Garden in Her Face