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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
Richard Crashaw

Born: 1612
Died: August 21, 1649 (aged 37)
Bio: Richard Crashaw was an English poet, teacher, Anglican cleric and Catholic convert, who was among the major figures associated with the metaphysical poets in seventeenth-century English literature.
Known for:
- Metaphysical Poetry
- Selected Poems: Secular & Sacred
- The English Poems Of Richard Crashaw