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    The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World
    The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World
    The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World
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    The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World

    By Charles Tomlinson

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
    The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World
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    Charles Tomlinson

    Charles Tomlinson was born in Stoke on Trent in 1927. He studied at Cambridge with Donald Davie and taught at the University of Bristol from 1956 until his retirement. He published many collections of poetry as well as volumes of criticism and translation, and edited the Oxford Book of Verse in Translation (1980). His poetry won international recognition and received many prizes in Europe and the United States, including the 1993 Bennett Award from the Hudson Review; the New Criterion Poetry Prize, 2002; the Premio Internazionale di Poesia Ennio Flaiano, 2001; and the Premio Internazionale di Poesia Attilio Bertolucci, 2004. He was an Honorary Fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge, the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences, and of the Modern Language Association. Charles Tomlinson was made a CBE in 2001 for his contribution to literature. He died in 2015.

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