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| Anstey, Christopher |
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( n´st ) (KEY) , 17241805, English poet and satirist. He is known chiefly for The New Bath Guide (1766), a series of poetical episodes humorously depicting contemporary life at Bath. This work was widely read in its time and may have influenced Tobias Smollets Humphrey Clinker. |
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