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Charles Cotton


Born
in Alstonefield, Staffordshire, The United Kingdom
April 28, 1630

Died
February 16, 1687

Genre
Poetry


Charles Cotton (1630-1687) was English poet and writer, best known for translating the work of Michel de Montaigne from the French and for his contributions to The Compleat Angler. The highly influential The Compleat Gamester has been attributed to him.

Cotton's reputation as a burlesque writer may account for the neglect with which the rest of his poems have been treated. Their excellence was not, however, overlooked by good critics. Coleridge praises the purity and unaffectedness of his style in Biographia Literaria, and Wordsworth (Preface, 1815) gave a copious quotation from the "Ode to Winter". The "Retirement" is printed by Walton in the second part of the Compleat Angler. ...more

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“How calm and quiet a delight
It is alone
To read, and meditate, and write.”
― Charles Cotton
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