biography
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| lived:
| (1700–48)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Ednam, Scottish Borders, SE Scotland, UK. Educated at Edinburgh for the ministry, he abandoned his studies and turned to writing in London (1725). He is best known for his four-part work, The Seasons (1730), the first major nature poem in English, and for his ode ‘Rule, Britannia’ from Alfred, a Masque (1740), and the Spenserian allegory The Castle of Indolence (1748). |
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