Solomon on the Vanity of the World

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Solomon on the Vanity of the World

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Thomson, Prior, and Gay
…who essayed graver themes in Solomon on the Vanity of the World (1718), a disquisition on the vanity of human knowledge, but who also wrote some of the most direct and coolly elegant love poetry of the period. Prior’s principal competitor as a writer of light verse was John Gay,…
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…who essayed graver themes in Solomon on the Vanity of the World (1718), a disquisition on the vanity of human knowledge, but who also wrote some of the most direct and coolly elegant love poetry of the period. Prior’s principal competitor as a writer of light verse was John Gay,…
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