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Taylor, John

Taylor, John (1580–1653),
the ‘water poet’. Raised in Gloucester and apprenticed to a London waterman, Taylor was pressed into the navy, but he eventually became a waterman again. In his versified The Price of Hempseed (1620), he cites Shakespeare among thirteen English poets who, through paper's medium, live ‘immortally’.

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