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Eileen Sperry
is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Skidmore College and a 2022-23 Folger Institute Fellow. Her current project examines death, decay, and lyric form in early modern English poetry.
a guest post by Eileen Sperry For early modern English Christians, dying was an art form. The bestseller list of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, had there been one, would have been topped by some of the period’s many…
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