Thomas Edwards (Q387469)
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* 1699, + 1757, English critic and poet
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Thomas Edwards |
* 1699, + 1757, English critic and poet |
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Education: tutored in the classical languages; studied law at Lincoln's Inn 1721; purportedly studied at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge; elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries 1745
Coteries: Samuel Richardson; Hester Mulso; Daniel Wray; Philip and Charles Yorke; Thomas Birch; John Lawry; William Heberden; Mrs Catherine Talbot; Richard Owen Cambridge; Speaker Arthur Onslow and son George; Isaac Hawkins Browne; John Dyer; John Hoadly; William Melmoth the younger; John Wilkes
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.
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