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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. (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.
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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.
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. (bap. 12 February 1715 - 14 April 1785) William Whitehead (1715-1785) © National Portrait Gallery, London. Works in ECPA. alphabetical listing / listing in source editions. The DANGER of Writing VERSE. An EPISTLE. ( ) ELEGY I. Written at the CONVENT of HAUT VILLERS in CHAMPAGNE, 1754. ( ) ELEGY II. On the MAUSOLEUM of AUGUSTUS.
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.
Poems by 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 orna.
