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ok i have to do this poetry project!.!.!.!.the teacher passed out the stuff to do it fridaa!.!.!.!.and i was absent and then I was absent again monday and we had Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) testing!.!.!.!.!.!.so I didn't have that class again until today!.!.!.and I have to have a biography written on Eliza Cook the poet by tomorrow!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.I keep looking up Eliza Cook but all that keeps coming up is stuff about some doctor who was born nabout 50 years after the poet was!.!.!.!.!.!.!.my point is!.!.!.!.will you help me find information about Eliza Cook the Poet!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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http://rpo!.library!.utoronto!.ca/poet/73!.h!.!.!.
http://www!.victorianstation!.com/poetreli!.!.!.
http://www!.famouspoetsandpoems!.com/poets!.!.!.
http://worldlibrary!.net/eBooks/Poetry_Co!.!.!.

the search page
http://search!.yahoo!.com/search!?search=El!.!.!.

other poets

Spike Milligan
famous for the funny man , writer , goon show
some of his poems are quite dark - below is one I was introduced to in school years ago
http://www!.poemhunter!.com/poem/unto-us/

there are many other to enjoy
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Some well-known poets associated with Massachusetts are Emily Dickinson, Anne Sexton, and Robert Francis!.

Some English poets who might interest you are John Keats, William Wordsworth, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

http://famouspoetsandpoems!.com/poets/eli!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Eliza Cook (24 December 1818 - 23 September 1889) was an English author born in Southwark, the daughter of a local tradesman!. She attended the local Sunday Schools and was encouraged by the son of the music master to produce her first volume of poetry!. From this she took confidence and in 1837 began to offer verse to the radicalWeekly Dispatch, then edited by William Johnston Fox, She was a staple of its pages for the next ten years!. She also offered material to The Literary Gazette, Metropolitan Magazine and New Monthly!.

Her work for the Dispatch and New Monthly was later pirated by Julian Harney, the Chartist, for the Northern Star!. Familiar with the London Chartist movement, in its various sects, she followed many of the older radicals in disagreeing with the O'Brienites and O'Connorites in their disregard for repeal of the Corn Laws!. She also preferred the older radical's path of friendly societies and self-education!.

In 1838 she published Melaia and other Poems, and from 1849 to 1854 wrote, edited, and published Eliza Cooks Journal, a weekly periodical she described as one of "utility and amusement!." Cook also published Jottings from my Journal (1860), and New Echoes (1864); and in 1863 she was given a civil list pension of 100 a year!. Her poem The Old Armchair (1838) made hers a household name for a generation, both in England and in America!. Cook was a proponent of political and sexual freedom for women, and believed in the ideology of self-improvement through education, something she called "levelling up!."

This made her great favourite with the working-class public!. Her works became a staple of anthologies throughout the century!. She died in Wimbledon!.

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