Edmund Smith

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Edmund Smith (1672-1710), (born Edmund Neale) was a minor English poet in the early eighteenth century. He is little read today but Samuel Johnson included him in his Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets in 1781.

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[edit] Biography

The son of a successful merchant, Edmund Smith attended Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford where he stayed until 1705.[1] Smith translated Phèdre by Racine which was staged in 1707 [2] and died in Wiltshire in 1710.

[edit] Notable works

  • Phaedra and Hippolitus (1707) (translation of Phèdre by Racine)
  • A poem on the death of Mr. John Philips (1710)
  • Works (1714) (posthumous publication)
  • Thales; a monody, sacred to the memory of Dr. Pococke. In imitation of Spenser (1750) (posthumous publication)

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Johnson, Samuel (1781). Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets vol. 2, 1-22. 
  2. ^ Chalmers, Alexander (1812-17). General Biographical Dictionary 28, 107-13. 

[edit] External links

Dr Johnson's biography of Edmund Smith, available at Project Gutenberg.

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