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WILLIAM SMITH (fl. 1596)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 270 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM SMITH (fl. 1596)  ,
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English sonneteer . He published in 1596 a sonnet sequence entitled Chloris, or the Complaint of the passionate despised Shepheard . He was a
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disciple of Spenser, to whom the two first sonnets and the last are addressed . He signed his name W . Smith, and has sometimes been confused with the playwright Wentworth Smith, who collaborated with John Day, William Haughton and others (1601-1603) .

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