Yesenia Collier
DIS 1H
-1716-1771
-Lived the quiet life of a university professor
-Only surviving child out of 12. Had an unhappy family life.
-Attended Cambridge, but left without taking a degree to take a tour of France and Italy. He went back to cambridge and spent the rest of his life there, writing letters and poetry.
-Most of his poetry goes against the "wit and satiric elegance" of Pope's couplets.
-Uses archaic words and latin words in his poetry because he believes that is the language of poetry.
-He was more interested with the common people than with the elite.
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