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Página 47 - improvements" of Drummond's poetry may help account for his eighteenth-century reputation, which was greater than that of most other Elizabethans. Philip Neve, for example, using Phillips' text — and silently adding a few "improvements" of his own! — praised the poet highly: "His thoughts are often, nay generally, bold and highly poetical; he follows nature; and his verses are delicately harmonious" (Cursory Kr marks on Some of the Ancient English Poets, 1789, p.
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