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* 1699, + 1757, English critic and poet
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Thomas Edwards
* 1699, + 1757, English critic and poet

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    Periodicals etc.: thirteen sonnets in Dodsley's Collection of Poems (1751)
    Overall: Edwards was able to live a life of leisure, devoting himself to writing poetry, reading, and gardening, having inherited a large estate on his father's early death. In 1740 he moved to a small farm. His attack on Warburton's edition of Shakespeare made him famous, eliciting SJ's well-known defence of Warburton as a ‘stately horse’ being stung by a fly. Edwards became renowned as a writer of Miltonic sonnets, for which he was highly praised in the Monthly Review.