WILLIAM COLLINS.-1720-1759.

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Born at Chichester - Educated at Winchester and Oxford Publishes 'Ori-

ental Eclogues' and Odes on several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects --

Publishes Proposals for a History of the Revival of Learning'- Publishes

a Poem on Thomson's Death-Dies insane, and Buried in St. Andrew's

Church, Chichester-Works and Character

Page 281

JOHN DYER.-1700-1758.

Second Son of Robert Dyer, of Aberglasney, in Caermarthenshire - Educated

at Westminster-Studies Poetry and Painting - Publishes 'Grongar Hill,'

a Poem - Enters into Holy Orders - Publishes The Ruins of Rome,'

'The Fleece,' &c. - Made Rector of Coningsby, in Lincolnshire - Death

and Burial at Coningsby

.

WILLIAM SHENSTONE.-1714-1763.

289

Born at the Leasowes, in Shropshire - Educated at Hales-Owen and Oxford

-Publishes a small Miscellany of Poems without his name Publishes

The Judgment of Hercules,' 'The Schoolmistress,' and other Poems-

His Ferme ornée - His pecuniary difficulties - Death and Burial in Hales-

Owen Churchyard, Shropshire-Works and Character

295

EDWARD YOUNG.-1681-1765.

Born at Upham, in Hampshire

Educated at Winchester and Oxford - His

first Poetry Is patronised by the Duke of Wharton - Publishes his 'Uni-

versal Passion' - Writes for the Stage-Enters into Holy Orders - Receives

a Pension of 2001. a-year from George I. -- Marries - Death of his Wife --

Publishes The Complaint, or Night Thoughts'- Presented to the Living

of Welwyn, in Hertfordshire- His only Son- Death and Burial at Welwyn

-Works and Character

. 307

DAVID MALLET.-1698 ?-1765.

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Born in the Highlands of Scotland Educated at Edinburgh - Made Tutor

to the sons of the Duke of Montrose - Visits London - Publishes 'William

and Margaret,' a Ballad Changes his name Publishes The Excursion,'

a Poem - Courts Pope by a Poem On Verbal Criticism'- Writes for the

Stage Made Under Secretary to Frederick, Prince of Wales - Writes a

'Life of Bacon,' and undertakes a 'Life of the Duke of Marlborough'—

Publishes Amyntor and Theodora,' a Poem - Seeks to blacken the memory

of Pope Left Bolingbroke's Literary Executor His Pamphlet against

Admiral Byng - Obtains a Pension Is twice married - Death and Burial

-Works and Character

361

MARK AKENSIDE.-1721-1770.

Born at Newcastle-on-Tyne - Educated at Edinburgh and Leyden - Deter-

mines to study Physic Publishes The Pleasures of Imagination — His

Quarrel with Warburton - Writes a Poem against Pulteney Publishes a

volume of Odes - Mr. Dyson's friendship for him His small practice as a

physician- Death, and Burial in St. James's Church, Piccadilly, Lon-

don
Page 375

LORD LYTTELTON.--1709-1773.

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Son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton of Hagley, in Worcestershire - Educated at Eton

and Oxford Visits France and Italy - Obtains a seat in Parliament-

Made Secretary to Frederick, Prince of Wales - His Friendship with Pope

and Thomson Is twice married Publishes his Observations on the Con-

version of St. Paul '-- Inherits his Father's Baronetcy — Is created a Peer —

Writes the History of the Reign of Henry II.'- Death and Burial at

Hagley
391

.

-

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Born in Cornhill, London - Educated at Eton and Cambridge - Accompanies

Horace Walpole into Italy - His Quarrel with Pope - Publishes his Elegy

written in a Country Churchyard '-- Its immediate popularity - Publishes

his Odes Refuses the Laurel - Made Professor of Modern History at

Cambridge - Death and Burial at Stoke Pogeis in Buckinghamshire —

Works and Character .

403

ADDITIONAL NOTES.

INDEX

423

433

THE

LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS.

ALEXANDER POPE.

VOL. III.

B

(3)

POPE.

1688-1744.

Born in London - Both Parents Roman Catholics Educated by Priests Early distinguished as a Poet Lives at Binfield in Berkshire Sees Dryden Becomes acquainted with Wycherley, Walsh, Sir W. Trumbull, &c. Writes his Pastorals' Publishes his 'Pastorals' in Tonson's Miscellany Publishes An Essay on Criticism Dennis attacks the Essay' - Publishes The Rape of the Lock' in Lintot's Miscellany - His intimacy with Addison - Publishes Windsor Forest' - Commences a Translation of the‘Iliad' — History of the Subscription for the Iliad' - Lord Halifax and Pope Collects his Poems-Eloisa to Abelard’- Verses on an Unfortunate Lady' Commences a Translation of the 'Odyssey' - Fenton and Broome Publication of his Letters to Cromwell - Curll-Edits ShakespeareTheobald's Attack The Bathos History of The Dunciad'. Writes his Moral Epistles' and Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot' - The 'Essay on Man' Bolingbroke and Warburton Quarrels with Lord Hervey and Lady Mary Montagu His Imitations of Horace · Col

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lects a Second Volume of his Poems Publication of his Letters by Curll Writes his two Dialogues, '1738'

Quarrels with Cibber Writes a Fourth Book of The Dunciad' - Theobald dethroned Death and Burial at Twickenham - Personal Character Works and Character Dryden and Pope compared Criticism on his Epitaphs.

ALEXANDER POPE was born in London, May 22, 1688, of parents whose rank or station was never ascertained: we are informed that they were of "gentle blood;" that his father was of a family of which the Earl of Downe was the head ;2 and that his mother was the daughter of William Turner, Esq., of York, who had likewise three sons, one of whom had the

Of gentle blood (part shed in honour's cause,
While yet in Britain honour had applause)

Each parent sprung.

POPE: Epistle to Arbuthnot.

* Compare note in Warton's 'Essay on Pope,' ed. 1782, vol. ii. p. 262. "Pray what authority had you to say that Mr. Pope's mother was Cooper's daughter?... In the parish of Worsbro, a village very near Lord Strafford, is the following entry:-1643. Edith, the daughter of Mr. William Turner, bapt. 18 June.' Which Mr. Brooke, one of the Heralds, who is writing an account of Yorkshire families, says is the same person."-- Mason to Walpole, Dec. 4, 1782. If