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Barclay, Alexander
 
 
(bär´kl, –kl) (KEY) , 1475?–1552, Scottish clergyman and poet. Although the first to write pastoral eclogues in English, he is best known for The Ship of Fools (1509), a translation and elongation of Sebastian Brant’s widely popular poem Das Narrenschiff.
 
 
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