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Edward Young

Male : Poet. Married Lady Elizabeth Lee (granddaughter of Charles II) in 1731
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Upham, Hampshire

Date of Birth : 1683 Date of Death : 1765 Age : 72

Other Work : Rector of Welwyn 1730-1765

Education : Winchester & New College, Oxford & Corpus Christi College, Oxford
1713-1720
An Epistle to Lord Lansdowne
(1713)
A Poem OnThe Last Day
(1713 printed at the theatre, Oxford for Edward Whistler)
An Epistle to the Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Sent with A Poem on the Last Day
(1714)
The Force of Religion, or Vanquished Love : A Poem
(1714)
On the Late Death of Queen Anne
(1714) - elegy
Busiris, King of Egypt
(1719) - play
A Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job
(1719 Tonson)
A Letter to Mr Tickell Occasioned by the Death of Joseph Addison
(1719)

1721-1730
The Revenge : A Tragedy
(1721 for Chetwood, London)
The Universal Passion
(1725-8) - 7 vols
Poetic Works
(1726)
The Instalment
(1726 for J Walthoe, London)
Cynthio
(1727)
Ocean : An Ode Occasioned by His Majesty's Late Royal Encouragement of the Sea-Service
(1728)
A Vindication of Providence, or A true Estimate of Human Life, in which the Passions are Considered
in a New Light : A Sermon
(1728)
The Love of Fame, the Universal Passion in Seven Characteristical Satires
(1728 Tonson. 2nd Ed)
An Apology for Princes, or The Reverence Due to Government : A Sermon
(1729)
Imperium Pelagi : A Naval Lyric Written in Imitation of Pindar's Spirit
(1730)
Two Epistles to Mr Pope Concerning the Authors of the Age
(1730)

1731-1750
The Foreign Address, or The Best Argument for Peace
(1735)
The Poetical Works
(1741 Curll, Tonson, Walthoe : London. 2nd Collected Edition) - 2 vols
The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality
(1742-5 Robert Dodsley) - 8 vols
(1755 A Millar & Dodsley. New Ed)
(1766 for Peter Wilson, Dublin. Corrected Edition)
(1771 Foulis, Edinburgh) - 3 vols
(1787 Rivington)
(1791 Henry Taylor, Phila)
(1797 London) - 43 engravings by William Blake

1751-1800
The Brothers : A Tragedy
(1753) - from a Play by Corneille
(1777 Bell, London)
The Centaur not Fabulous, in Five Letters to a friend on the Life in Vogue
(1755 for A Millar, London. 2nd Ed) - Anon
A Sea Piece Containing the British Sailor's Excultation and His Prayer before Engagement
(1755)
The Poetical Works
(1757) - 4 vols
An Argument Drawn from the Circumstances of Christ's Death for the Truth
of His Religion : A Sermon
(1758)
Conjectures in Original Composition in a Letter to the Author of Sir Charles Grandison
(1759)
Resignation
(1761)
The Works in Prose ..
(1765 Brown, Hill & Payne : London)
Poems on Several Occasions
(1771 Foulis, Glasgow)
The Passions Personify'd, in Familiar Fables
(1773 J Whiston, London) - Anon
The Poetical Works
(1784 Bell, Edinburgh) - 4 vols
The Works
(1792 Dodsley. New Ed) - 3 vols

After 1801
The Poetical Works
(1852 Wm Pickering, Aldine Poets) - 2 vols
The Brothers
(1953) - play
The Correspondence of Edward Young 1683-1765
(1971 Clarendon Press) - Edited by Henry Pettit
Selected Poems
(1975) - Edited by Brian Hepworth

READING
Walter Thomas : La Poete Young
(1901)
H C Shelley : The Life and Letters of Edward Young
(1914)
Francesco Cordasco : Edward Young - A Handlist of Critical Notices and Studies
(1950)
I St J Bliss : Edward Young
(1969)

Related Writers

William Blake
Edinburgh


See also

Penguin Books : History