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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.
William Whitehead was the superb organist…A brilliantly life-enhancing performance of magnificent music, and one of the true highlights of the entire six-day experience’ Colin Clarke, ‘Seen and Heard’, reviewing the Gabrieli Consort’s Christmas Oratorio, streamed in the Voces8 Live from London festival 2020.
19 de abr. de 2024 · William Whitehead 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 Henry the Eighth (1743), and in 1745 he became.
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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.
In addition to plays, Whitehead duties as poet laureate included writing obligatory odes but he also wrote a burlesque poem, The Sweepers, the poems The Goat’s Beard, Variety, The Youth and the Philosopher and The Je Ne Sais Quoi, an ode, The Enthusiast and an Epilogue, Spoken by Mrs Pritchard.
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.
