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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Poet, author, and journalist Ella Wheeler Wilcox (nee Ella Wheeler) was born in Johnstown, Wisconsin, on November 5, 1850, the youngest of four children. She discovered her love and talent for writing poetry early
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Plea to Science
O Science reaching backward through the distance,
Most earnest child of God,
Exposing all the secrets of existence,
With thy divining rod,
5I bid thee speed up to the heights supernal,
Clear thinker, ne'er sufficed;
Go seek and bind the laws and truths eternal,
But leave me Christ.
Upon the vanity of pious sages
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Who is the first English poet to secure an independent income solely through his writing?
AnswerAlexander Pope. Between his popular satires and his translations of Homer, Pope managed to have an income sufficient to afford a small villa at Twickenham, fully equipped with an artificial grotto.
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