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Edmund Smith (poet)

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Name
  
Edmund Smith

Died
  
1710

Role
  
Poet

Education
  
Christ Church, Oxford

Edmund Smith (1672–1710), born Edmund Neale, was a minor English poet in the early 18th 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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Biography

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

Notable works

  • Phaedra and Hippolitus (1707) (translation of Phedre 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)

    • References

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