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| | §11. John Hall. IV. Lesser Caroline Poets. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. The Cambridge History of English and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | John Hall, born at Durham in 1627, and educated at the grammar school there, entered St. Johns college, Cambridge, in February, 1645/6, and, in little more than a twelvemonth, had published a volume of prose essays, Horae Vacivae (1646) and one of poems in two books, profane and divine (1647). |
 | | Halls poems exhibit the minor verse of the period, if not in a complete, at any rate in a new and peculiar, microcosm. |
 | | His gift in the poetical direction lies wholly in pure lyric, and especially in the employment for it of the abruptly broken metres, with constant very short lines alternated with long, that had come into favour, of strongly metaphysical diction and of no small portion of the undefinable atmosphere of poetic suggestion referred to above. |
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