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Arthur Henry Bullen

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BULLEN, ARTHUR HENRY British man of letters, was born in London on Feb. 9, 1857 and educated at the City of London school and Balliol college, Oxford. He was the son of George Bullen, sometime keeper of the printed books at the British Museum. He was an authority on 16th and 17th century literature, and discovered many lost poems of the period in the Bodleian and Christ Church libraries at Oxford ; his greatest achievement was the rediscovery of Thomas Campion (q.v.) in 1889 after nearly 30o years of neglect (see CAMPION, THOMAS). For several years he was a partner in the publishing house of Lawrence and Bullen, and after its dissolution founded the Shakes peare Head Press at Stratford-on-Avon in 1904, which was sold to B. H. Blackwell of Oxford after his death. He died at Stratford on-Avon on Feb. 29, 192o.

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