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… by the poet John Taylor, and gained traction throughout the English Civil War, which was fought in writing as well as with actual arms. The concerted efforts to discredit the other side in writing therefore produced the idea of a whole group of writers that worked for a cause that lay outside of purely literary ambitions, with the added – and important – suspicion that many of them might be less soldiers of faith and more mercenaries. And … serve as an extreme example of how authors could indeed regard themselves as mercenaries. Ralph was a writer by trade, with a biography mirroring those of other miscellaneous authors of the period. From the early 1730s on, Ralph had …
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