biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1716–71)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in London, UK. He studied at Cambridge, where in 1768 he became professor of history and modern languages. In 1742 he wrote his ‘Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College’, and began his masterpiece, ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ (1751), set at Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire. In it, he reflects on the obscure destinies of the people buried there and, through them, on the fate of all. He then settled in Cambridge, where he wrote his Pindaric Odes (1757). He was a friend of Horace Walpole. |
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