Elijah Fenton

Elijah Fenton (1683 - 1730) was a poet, biographer and translator.

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1683 - 1730 - Poet

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Born in Shelton (now Stoke-on-Trent), and educated at Cambridge, for a

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Shelton - Stoke-on-Trent

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time he acted as secretary to the Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery in Flanders, and was then Master of Sevenoaks Grammar School.

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Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery - Sevenoaks Grammar School

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In 1707 he published a book of poems. He is best known, however, as the assistant of Alexander Pope in his translation of the Odyssey, of which he 'Englished' the first, fourth, nineteenth, and twentieth books, catching the manner of his master so completely that it is hardly possible to distinguish between their work; while thus engaged he published (1723) a successful tragedy, Marianne. His later contributions to literature were a Life of Milton, and as an editor of Waller's Poems (1729).

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1707 - Alexander Pope - Odyssey - 1723 - Marianne - Life of Milton - Waller's Poems - 1729

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