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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.
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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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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.
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.
William Whitehead or Bill Whitehead may refer to: William Whitehead (poet) (1715–1785), English poet and playwright; Poet Laureate in 1757; William Adee Whitehead (1810–1884), historian who assisted in the development of Key West, Florida; William Whitehead (Canadian writer) (1931–2018), Canadian writer, actor and filmmaker
We find that in a poem, called "Johnson's Laurel on the Contests of the Poets, London, 1785," the year of Whitehead's death, he is dismissed in one contemptuous and contemptible couplet—Mason, Hayley, Pratt, are described: " Next Whitehead came, his worth a pinch of snuff, But for a Laureate he was good enough."
(1715–85). From 1757 to 1785 the poet laureate of Britain was William Whitehead, English poet and playwright. His best work was a series of verse tales or fables in the style of French poet Jean de La Fontaine. Whitehead was the son of a baker in Cambridge, England, where he was baptized on February 12, 1715.
