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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'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Young
Edward Young (c. 3 July 1683 – 5 April 1765) was an English poet, best remembered for ''Night-Thoughts'', a series of philosophical writings in blank verse, reflecting his state of mind following several bereavements. It was one of the most popular poems of the century, influencing Goethe and Edmund Burke, among many others, with its notable illustrations by William Blake. Young also took holy orders, and wrote many fawning letters in search of preferment, attracting accusations of insincerity. Early life Young was a son of Edward Young, later Dean of Salisbury, and was born at his father's rectory at Upham, near Winchester, where he was baptized on 3 July 1683. He was educated at Winchester College, and matriculated at New College, Oxford, in 1702. He later migrated to Corpus Christi, and in 1708 was nominated by Archbishop Tenison to a law fellowship at All Souls. He took his degree of Doctor of Canon Law in 1719.Chisholm, 1911 Literary career Young's first publica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Merrick
James Merrick (1720–1769) was an English poet and scholar; M.A. Trinity College, Oxford, 1742: fellow, 1745: ordained, but lived in college. It is said that " entered into holy orders, but never could engage in parochial duty, from being subject to excessive pains in his head".Thomas Campbell, ''Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices'' (1855), p. 523. He published poems, including ''The Chameleon''; translated from the Greek and advocated the compilation and amalgamation of indexes to the principal Greek authors; versified the Psalms, several editions of which were set to music. His work was featured in Oxford religious poetry anthologies. Works Merrick wrote: * ''The Messiah, a Divine Essay'', Reading, 1734; juvenilia. * ''The Destruction of Troy, being the sequel of the Iliad, translated from the Greek of Tryphiodorus, with Notes'', Oxford, 1739. Gilbert Wakefield praised this translation. * ''Tryphiodori Ilii excidium. Lacunas aliquot e co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1745 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *October 19 – Jonathan Swift, Irish satirist and Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, dies aged 78. His body is laid out in public for the people of Dublin to pay their last respects, and he is buried, in accordance with his wishes, in his cathedral by Esther Johnson's side, with his own epitaph: ''Ubi sæva Indignatio/Ulterius/Cor lacerare nequit'' ("Where savage indignation can no longer lacerate the heart"). His death marks the end of the Scriblerus Club and the effective end of the age of Augustan poetry. Works published * John Adams, ''Poems on Several Occasions'', Biblical verse paraphrases, devotional works and nonreligious poems; 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 B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1744 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published Colonial America * John Armstrong, ''The Art of Preserving Health''Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press * Mather Byles, ''Poems on Several Occasions'', 31 poems written since 1727; he wrote a range of poetic forms in formal, neoclassical verse influenced by Alexander PopeBurt, 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 * James Logan, ''Cicero's Cato Major'', a verse translation * Jane Turell, ''Memoirs'', a collection of pious poems already published as ''Reliquiae Turellae'' together with secular verses (posthumous) United Kingdom * Anonymous, ''Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book'', the first e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night-Thoughts
''The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality'', better known simply as ''Night-Thoughts'', is a long poem by Edward Young published in nine parts (or "nights") between 1742 and 1745. It was illustrated with notable engravings by William Blake. Style and content The poem is written in blank verse. It describes the poet's musings on death over a series of nine "nights" in which he ponders the loss of his wife and friends, and laments human frailties. The best-known line in the poem (at the end of "Night I") is the adage "procrastination is the thief of time", which is part of a passage in which the poet discusses how quickly life and opportunities can slip away. ''Night-Thoughts'' had a very high reputation for many years after its publication, but is now best known for a major series of illustrations by William Blake in 1797. A lesser-known set of illustrations was created by Thomas Stothard in 1799. The nine nights are each a poem of their own. They are: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Hanbury Williams
Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, KB (8 December 1708 – 2 November 1759) was a Welsh diplomat, writer and satirist. He was a Member of Parliament from 1734 until his death. Early life Hanbury was the son of a Welsh ironmaster and Member of Parliament, John Hanbury, and his second wife, Bridget Ayscough, eldest daughter of Sir Edward Ayscough of Stallingborough and South Kelsey. With his father's marriage to Bridget came a fortune of £10,000 and connections with established political families. His mother was a close friend of Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough. Charles went to Eton, where he befriended the novelist Henry Fielding. In 1720, he assumed the name of Williams, under the terms of a bequest from his godfather, Charles Williams of Caerleon. Career Williams entered Parliament in 1734, representing the Monmouthshire constituency as a supporter of Robert Walpole, and held the seat until 1747. In 1754 he was returned to the commons as member for Leominster, hold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Somervile
William Somervile or Somerville (2 September 167517 July 1742) was an English poet who wrote in many genres and is especially remembered for "The Chace", in which he pioneered an early English georgic. Life Somervile, the eldest son of a long established country family, was born in Staffordshire in 1677. He was a descendant of Roger de Somerville, of an English branch of the Somerville Family. William raised at the family seat of Edstone, near Wootton Wawen in Warwickshire. He was educated at Winchester College and at New College, Oxford, and then studied law at the Middle Temple. After his father's death in 1705 he lived on his estate and devoted himself to the field sports which were eventually to supply the subjects of his best-known poems. Among his friends and neighbours were the poets William Shenstone, Richard Jago and George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton. Later he was a correspondent of Allan Ramsay and they exchanged poems. But Somervile's convivial hospitality straine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1748 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published United Kingdom * Mark Akenside, ''An Ode to the Earl of Huntingdon'' * Robert Dodsley, editor, first three volumes of ''A Collection of Poems'' (1748–58), Volume 2 includes Thomas Gray's "Ode n the Spring, " Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes" and "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" (first published separately 1747) * William Kenrick, ''The Town'' * Mary Leapor, ''Poems upon Several Occasions'' (1748–51), posthumous * Ambrose Philips, ''Pastorals, Epistles, Odes and Other Original Poems'' * Thomas Sheridan, ''The Simile; or, Woman: a Cloud'', published posthumously * James Thomson, '' The Castle of Indolence: An Allegorical Poem. Written in Imitation of Spenser.'', a mock-Spenserian poem; published by Andrew Millar (see also "Deaths", below) * Thomas Warton, the elder, ''Poems on Several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1737 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *March 2 – Samuel Johnson and his former pupil David Garrick leave Lichfield to seek their fortunes in London. *English poet Richard Jago becomes curate of Snitterfield. Works published United Kingdom * Henry Carey, ''The Musical Century, in One Hundred English Ballads'', with Carey's musical settingsCox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Stephen Duck, ''The Vision'', on the November 20 death of Queen Caroline * Richard Glover, ''Leonidas'', in nine books (expanded to 12 in 1770) * Matthew Green, ''The Spleen'', has been called his chief poem; with a preface by his friend Richard Glover (see also, "Deaths" below) * Alexander Pope: ** ''Horace His Ode to Venus'' ** ''The Second Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated'' ** ''Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope, and Severa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Shenstone
William Shenstone (18 November 171411 February 1763) was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, ''The Leasowes''. Biography Son of Thomas Shenstone and Anne Penn, daughter of William Penn of Harborough Hall, then in Hagley (now Blakedown), Shenstone was born at the Leasowes, Halesowen on 18 November 1714. At that time this was an exclave of Shropshire within the county of Worcestershire and now in the West Midlands. Shenstone received part of his formal education at Halesowen Grammar School (now The Earls High School). In 1741, Shenstone became bailiff to the feoffees of Halesowen Grammar School. While attending Solihull School, he began a lifelong friendship with Richard Jago. He went up to Pembroke College, Oxford in 1732 and made another firm friend there in Richard Graves, the author of ''The Spiritual Quixote''. Shenstone took no degree, but, while still at Oxford, he published ''Poems on va ... [...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 constitutional unification of the Thirteen Colonies (although a strong oral tradition often likened to poetry already existed among Native American societies). Unsurprisingly, most of the early colonists' work relied on contemporary English models of poetic form, diction, and Theme (literary), theme. However, in the 19th century, a distinctive American Common parlance, idiom began to emerge. By the later part of that century, when Walt Whitman was winning an enthusiastic audience abroad, List of poets from the United States, poets from the United States had begun to take their place at the forefront of 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 on the far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Poetry
This article focuses on poetry from the United Kingdom written in the English language. The article does not cover poetry from other countries where the English language is spoken, including Republican Ireland after December 1922. The earliest surviving English poetry, written in Anglo-Saxon, the direct predecessor of modern English, may have been composed as early as the 7th century. The earliest English poetry The earliest known English poem is a hymn on the creation; Bede attributes this to Cædmon ( fl. 658–680), who was, according to legend, an illiterate herdsman who produced extemporaneous poetry at a monastery at Whitby. This is generally taken as marking the beginning of Anglo-Saxon poetry. Much of the poetry of the period is difficult to date, or even to arrange chronologically; for example, estimates for the date of the great epic ''Beowulf'' range from AD 608 right through to AD 1000, and there has never been anything even approaching a consensus. It is pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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