biography
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| lived:
| (1721–59)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Chichester, West Sussex, S England, UK. He studied at Oxford, then went to London to make a living by literature. Dr Johnson once rescued him from the bailiffs by obtaining an advance from a bookseller on the promise of Collins to translate the Poetics of Aristotle. It was during this period that he wrote his Odes (1747), upon which his fame rests. He later retired to Chichester, where his poems included ‘Ode on the Superstitions of the Highlands’ - a work in which, says Lowell, ‘the whole Romantic School is foreshadowed’. |
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