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William Whitehead (baptized 12 February 1715 – 14 April 1785) was an English poet and playwright. He became Poet Laureate in December 1757 after Thomas Gray declined the position.
19 de abr. de 2024 · William Whitehead (born Feb. 12, 1715, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng.—died April 14, 1785, London) was a British poet laureate from 1757 to 1785. Whitehead was educated at Winchester College and Clare Hall, Cambridge, becoming a fellow in 1740. At Cambridge he published a number of poems, including a heroic epistle Ann Boleyn to ...
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William Whitehead. William Whitehead was born in Cambridge, the son of a baker. Through the patronage of Henry Bromley, later Baron Montford, who may have had some connection with the family, he was educated at Winchester College from where he won a scholarship to Clare College, Cambridge in 1735. He became a Fellow of the college in 1742.
Suarez, Michael F. Whitehead, William. A Collection of Poems by Several Hands [1782]. Ed. Robert Dodsley and Michael F. Suarez. Vol. I. London: Routledge/Thoemmes, 1997. 223. Print. 6 volumes. Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA) is a collaborative digital collection and research project devoted to the poetry of the long eighteenth century.
Overview. William Whitehead. (1715—1785) poet and playwright. Quick Reference. (1715–85), was best known in his day for his successful neo‐classical tragedy The Roman Father (1750), a version of Corneille's Horace. In 1757 he was appointed poet laureate, an elevation which caused much satiric comment, notably from Charles Churchill.
Famous poet / 1715-1785. William Whitehead. WHITEHEAD, WILLIAM (1715-1785), English poet-laureate, son of a baker, was born at Cambridge, and baptized on the 12th of February 1715. His father had extravagant tastes, and spent large sums in ornamenting a piece of land near Grant-chester, afterwards known as " Whitehead's Folly."
Abstract. The purpose of this dissertation is to study the literary career of William Whitehead, a minor eighteenth-century poet and dramatist. Whitehead was for a time closely associated with Garrick as a playwright and reader of plays, and was known to his contemporaries as a successful poet. He was appointed poet laureate in 1785.
