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John Donne 1633

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Date: 19940401
Author:John Robert Colombo

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John Donne 1633

"O my America! my new-found-land."

These words are a direct literary reference to Newfoundland, which Sir Humphrey Gilbert had claimed for England in 1583. The words were written by the English poet John Donne and come from his "Elegie XIX" (1633), Complete Poetry and Selected Prose (1932), edited by John Hayward. The elegy was written much earlier, perhaps as early as 1590, seven years after Sir Humphrey Gilbert's landfall.

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