Robert Browning, whose normality in appearance and conversation pleased
sensible folk and shocked idolaters, summed up in two stanzas the
difference between the popular conception of a poet and the real truth.
One might almost take the first stanza as representing the Irish and
the second the English temperament.
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George Eberhart is a librarian known for his encyclopedic bibliographies on unusual phenomena. He focuses on cryptozoology in an ambitious effort to collate information on every cryptid and a number of mythical creatures (e.g., griffin, roc, dragon, werewolf) that have been said to represent unknown and known animals.
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