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1743 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish poetry, Irish or French poetry, France). Events Works published English poetry, United Kingdom * Robert Blair (poet), Robert Blair, ''The Grave (poem), The Grave'' a work representative of the Graveyard poets movement * Samuel Boyse, ''Albion's Triumph'' * James Bramston, ''The Crooked Six-pence'', published anonymously, attributed to Bramston by Isaac Reed in his ''Repository'' 1777 in poetry, 1777; a parody of John Philips' ''The Splendid Shilling'' 1705 in poetry, 1705, and that poem's text is included in this publication * William Collins (poet), William Collins, ''Verses Humbly Address'd to Sir Thomas Hammer on his Edition of Shakespear's Works'', published anonymously "By a Gentleman of Oxford" * Thomas Cooke (author), Thomas Cooke, ''An Epistle to the Countess of Shaftesbury'' * Philip Doddridge, ''The Principles of the Christian Religion'' * Robert Dodsley, ''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Francis (translator)
Philip Francis (19 July 1708 – 5 March 1773) was an Anglo-Irish clergyman and writer, now remembered as a translator of Horace. Life He was son of Dr. John Francis, rector of St. Mary's, Dublin (from which living he was for a time ejected for political reasons), and dean of Lismore, and was born in 1708. He was sent to Trinity College, Dublin, taking the degree of B.A. in 1728, and was ordained, according to his father's wish, in the Church of Ireland. He held for some time the curacy of St. Peter's parish, Dublin, and while resident in that city published his translation of Horace, besides writing in the interests of ‘the Castle.’ Soon after the death of his wife, Elizabeth Rowe, whom he married in 1739, he crossed to England, and in 1744 obtained the rectory of Skeyton in Norfolk. He shortly was residing for the sake of literature and society in London. In January 1752, when Edward Gibbon became an inmate of his house, Francis was keeping or supposed to be keeping a sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Whitehead (English Poet)
William Whitehead (baptized 12 February 1715 – 14 April 1785) was an English poet and playwright. He became Poet Laureate in December 1757 after Thomas Gray declined the position. Life The son of a baker, Whitehead was born in Cambridge and through the patronage of Henry Bromley, afterwards Baron Montfort, was admitted to Winchester College aged fourteen. He entered Clare College, Cambridge on a Pyke scholarship in 1735, and became a fellow in 1742 (resigning this in 1746), and admitted Master of Arts in 1743. At Cambridge, Whitehead published an epistle ''On the Danger of writing Verse'' and some other poems, notably a heroic epistle, ''Ann Boleyn to Henry the Eighth'' (1743), and a didactic ''Essay on Ridicule'', also (1743). In 1745 Whitehead became the tutor of George Villiers, Viscount Villiers, son of William Villiers, 3rd Earl of Jersey, and took up his residence in London. There he produced two tragedies: ''The Roman Father'' and ''Creusa, Queen of Athens''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 Old Style and New Style dates, O.S. – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century. An exponent of Augustan literature, Pope is best known for his satirical and discursive poetry including ''The Rape of the Lock'', ''The Dunciad'', and ''An Essay on Criticism,'' and for his translations of Homer. Pope is often quoted in ''The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations'', some of his verses having entered common parlance (e.g. "damning with faint praise" or "An Essay on Criticism, to err is human; to forgive, divine"). Life Alexander Pope was born in London on 21 May 1688 during the year of the Glorious Revolution. His father (Alexander Pope, 1646–1717) was a successful linen merchant in the Strand, London. His mother, Edith (née Turner, 1643–1733), was the daughter of William Turner, Esquire, of York. Both pare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Mallet (writer)
David Mallet (or Malloch) ( 1705–1765) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, and went to London in 1723 to work as a private tutor. There he became friendly with Alexander Pope, James Thomson, and other literary figures including Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke. His best-known work was written in the same year: '' William and Margaret'', adapted from a traditional ballad. In 1740, he collaborated with Thomson on a masque, ''Alfred'', which was the vehicle for " Rule, Britannia!". His other plays and poetry (e.g. ''Amyntor and Theodora''), popular at the time, are largely forgotten, but Bolingbroke's writings were edited and published by Mallet in 1754. Life Mallet was probably the second son of James Malloch of Dunruchan, a well-to-do tenant farmer on Lord Drummond's Perthshire estate, a Roman Catholic, and a member of the outlawed Clan MacGregor. The household suffered during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715. Mallet gave his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Hill (writer)
Aaron Hill (10 February 1685 – 8 February 1750) was an English dramatist and miscellany writer. Biography The son of a country gentleman of Wiltshire, Hill was educated at Westminster School, and afterwards travelled in the East. He was the author of 17 plays, some of them, such as his versions of Voltaire's ''Zaire'' and '' Mérope'', being adaptations. He also wrote poetry, which is of variable quality. Having written some satiric lines on Alexander Pope, he received in return a mention in '' The Dunciad'', which led to a controversy between the two writers. Afterwards a reconciliation took place. He was a friend and correspondent of Samuel Richardson, whose '' Pamela'' he highly praised. In addition to his literary pursuits Hill was involved in many commercial schemes, usually unsuccessful. Hill was the manager of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane when he was 24 years old, and before being summarily fired for reasons unknown, he staged the premier of George Frideric Handel' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Poetry
American poetry refers to the poetry of the United States. It arose first as efforts by American colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the Constitution of the United States, constitutional unification of the Thirteen Colonies (although a strong oral tradition often likened to poetry already existed among Native Americans in the United States, Native American societies). Most of the early colonists' work was similar to contemporary English models of Meter (poetry), poetic form, diction, and Theme (literary), theme. However, in the 19th century, an American Common parlance, idiom began to emerge. By the later part of that century, List of poets from the United States, poets like Walt Whitman were winning an enthusiastic audience abroad and had joined the English-language ''avant-garde''. Much of the American poetry published between 1910 and 1945 remains lost in the pages of small circulation political periodicals, particularly the ones o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Green (poet)
Joseph Green (1706 – December 11, 1780) was an American clergyman and poet who published ''The Disappointed Cooper'' in 1743, mocking an old man's marriage to a much younger woman as well as criticizing the behavior of some New Light ministers. Biography Joseph Green was born in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, in 1706. He graduated from Harvard University in 1726, and became a successful businessman. He has been called "the foremost wit of his day." He often exchanged parodies and satiric poems with another Boston wit, Mather Byles.Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (2003). ''The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters With the Founding Fathers'', New York: Basic Civitas Books. , p. 10 Joseph Green's satirical poetry includes "To Mr. B Occasioned by His Verse" and "To Mr. Smibert on Seeing His Pictures". He also wrote "The Poet's Lamentation for the Loss of his Cat, which he us'd to call his Muse", "On Mr. B—s's singing an Hymn of his ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1747 In Poetry
::— Thomas Gray, ''Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College'' (full text here) Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * February – Horace Walpole's tabby cat Selima drowns in a Chinese porcelain vase while pursuing goldfish in his London home; he commissions an epitaph from Thomas Gray, who sends him " Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes" on March 1. Works published * Sir William Blackstone, ''The Panthion'', published anonymously, attribution uncertain * William Dunkin, ''Boeotia'' * Philip Francis, ''A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace'', parallel Latin and English texts; first collected edition (originally published in separate parts: ''The Odes, Epodes and Carmen Seculare of Horace'' 1743) * Thomas Gray, ''Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College'' (text), published anonymously (see quotation, above) * Charlotte Lennox, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1746 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or French poetry). Events * Lucy Terry writes the first known poem by an African American, "Bars Fight, August 28, 1746", about an Indian massacre of two white families in Deerfield, Massachusetts; the ballad was related orally for a century and first printed in 1855; English Colonial AmericaBurt, Daniel S.''The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times'' Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, , retrieved via Google Books * May 9 - Voltaire, on being admitted into the French Academy, gives a ''discours de réception'' in which he criticizes Boileau's poetry. In England, Voltaire's speech is quoted in ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' in July and the full text is translated into English in ''Dodsley's Museum'' for December 20.Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce''Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1742 In Poetry
:::::::— Edward Young, ''Night Thoughts'', "Night 1" Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Jonathan Swift suffers what appears to have been a stroke, losing the ability to speak and realizing his worst fears of becoming mentally disabled. ("I shall be like that tree," he once said, "I shall die at the top.") To protect him from unscrupulous hangers on, who had begun to prey on him, Swift's closest companions had him declared of "unsound mind and memory." Works published * William Collins, ''Persian Eclogues'', published anonymously; supposedly a translation (see also second edition, titled ''Oriental Eclogues'', 1757) * Thomas Cooke, ''Mr. Cooke's Original Poems'' * Philip Francis, translator, ''The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace'', very popular translation, published this year in Dublin (republished in 1743 in London; two more volumes, ''The Satires of Horace' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), Suetonius, Life of Horace commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his '' Odes'' as the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."Quintilian 10.1.96. The only other lyrical poet Quintilian thought comparable with Horace was the now obscure poet/metrical theorist, Caesius Bassus (R. Tarrant, ''Ancient Receptions of Horace'', 280) Horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses ('' Satires'' and '' Epistles'') and caustic iambic poetry ('' Epodes''). The hexameters are amusing yet serious works, friendly in tone, leading the ancient satirist Persius to comment: "as his friend laughs, Horace slyly puts his finger on his every fault; once let ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
