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| Barclay, Alexander |
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(bär´kl , kl ) (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 Brants widely popular poem Das Narrenschiff. |
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