John Hughes
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English poet, essayist, and translator, 1677-1720
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Hughes was an English poet, essayist and translator. Various of his works remained in print for a century after his death, but if he is remembered at all today it is for the use others made of his work. Texts of his were set by the foremost composers of the day and his translation of the Letters of Abelard and Heloise was a major source for Alexander Pope's Eloisa to Abelard.
