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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen (1792–1836)

Wiffen, Jeremiah Holmes. An English educator, poet, and translator; born at Woburn in 1792; died at Woburn Abbey, May 2, 1836. He made poetical translations of Garcilaso de la Vega (1823), Tasso’s ‘Jerusalem Delivered’ (2 vols., 1824–25), and from the Welsh ‘Triads.’ Besides contributing poems to the annuals, he published several volumes of original verse.