Thomas Sheridan (Q387672)

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Revision as of 14:39, 28 November 2021 by Olaf Simons (talk | contribs) (‎Removed claim: Biographical notes (P173): Overall: Sheridan was an ordained priest and a strong classicist who taught school in Dublin--he received his first benefice at age 38 and never acquired much patronage. He was a close friend of Swift's until late in life, and his oeuvre has a poor-man's-Swift quality to it: lots of broadside squibs and coterie verse published as broadsides; puns and jocular verse; and an essentially secular albeit moralizing poetic persona (though there is on...)
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* 1687, + 1738-10-10, Irish Anglican cleric and writer
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Thomas Sheridan
* 1687, + 1738-10-10, Irish Anglican cleric and writer

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    Date of birth
    1687
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    Place of birth
    Cavan
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    Biographical notes
    Patrons: Lord Carteret (who made Sheridan a chaplain, but then removed it after Sheridan gave a possibly unintentional anti-Hanoverian sermon)
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    Jacob Sider Jost/ Mary Naydan/ Noah Fusco, “Poets of the 1730s: A Digital Humanities Seedling” (2017/ 2021)
    Periodicals etc.: edited periodical “The Intelligencer” with Swift in Dublin in 1728 and 1729
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    Author
    Jacob Sider Jost/ Mary Naydan/ Noah Fusco, “Poets of the 1730s: A Digital Humanities Seedling” (2017/ 2021)
     

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