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This reference would seem to imply, however, that this Rowland and Thomas Woodward might have been considerably older than our Thomas Woodward, the immigrant, since the poet John Donne is known to have been born in 1572, and to have entered Lincoln’s Inn in 1592 (29). This turns out, in fact, to have been the case, as the following reference makes clear: | This reference would seem to imply, however, that this Rowland and Thomas Woodward might have been considerably older than our Thomas Woodward, the immigrant, since the poet John Donne is known to have been born in 1572, and to have entered Lincoln’s Inn in 1592 (29). This turns out, in fact, to have been the case, as the following reference makes clear: | ||
| − | <blockquote>A Note on Rowland Woodward, The Friend of Donne<blockquote> | + | <blockquote>A Note on Rowland Woodward, The Friend of Donne</blockquote> |
| − | <blockquote>The late Sir Edmund Gosse concludes the first volume of his ''Life and Letters of John Donne'' (1899, i, 318) by saying, "There is none of Donne's friends of whom we would gladly know more than of Rowland Woodward." He states that nothing is known of him but his name, the epistles that Donne wrote to him, and the gift to him by Donne of a copy of the ''Pseudo-Martyr'';<blockquote> | + | <blockquote>The late Sir Edmund Gosse concludes the first volume of his ''Life and Letters of John Donne'' (1899, i, 318) by saying, "There is none of Donne's friends of whom we would gladly know more than of Rowland Woodward." He states that nothing is known of him but his name, the epistles that Donne wrote to him, and the gift to him by Donne of a copy of the ''Pseudo-Martyr'';</blockquote> |
