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Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets.
Robert Hass
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Robert Hass
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 1
Literary Critic
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San Francisco County
California
Robert L. Hass
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The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school.
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What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.
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