biography
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| lived:
| (1714–63)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Leasowes, Shropshire, WC England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and in 1735 inherited the estate of the Leasowes, where he spent most of his income on ‘landscape gardening’ (a term he originated) to turn it into a show garden. In 1737 he published his best-known poem, ‘The Schoolmistress’, written in imitation of Spenser. He published The Judgement of Hercules in 1741. His Pastoral Ballad (1755) was commended by Gray and Johnson. |
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