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Charles Cotton

Born

in Alstonefield, Staffordshire, The United Kingdom

April 28, 1630

Died

February 16, 1687

Genre

Poetry

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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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	The Compleat Gamester: Or Instructions How to Play at All Manner of Usual and Most Genteel Games it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1971 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Compleat Gamester: Or, Full And Easy Instructions For Playing At Above Twenty Several Games Upon The Cards With Variety Of Diverting Fancies And Tricks Upon The Same Now First Added it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poems From the Works of Charles Cotton by Charles Cotton, Claud Lovat Fraser, Curwen Press it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poems really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lyrical Poems really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scarronides, or Virgil Travestie: A Mock Poem on the First and Fourth Books of Virgil's Æneid, in English Burlesque liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1664 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Charles Cotton by Charles Cotton, Geoffrey Grigson (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1975	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Churchwardens' Accounts of the Parish of St. Andrew, Canterbury, Vol. 1: 1485-1509 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The morall philosophy of the stoicks written originally in French by the ingenuous gentleman Monsieur du Vaix, first president of the Parliament of Provence; Englished by Charles Cotton ... (1671) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poems From the Works of Charles Cotton: Newly Decorated by Claud Lovat Fraser 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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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